On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 10:10:22AM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: > As I said previously, the write_inode() call is done _before_ you sync > the dirty pages to the server, whereas commit_unstable_pages() wants to > be done _after_ syncing. So the two are not the same, and we cannot > replace commit_unstable_pages() with write_inode(). But that's more an accident of how this code was written. The right order nees to be to write the pages first, then call write_inode. Most modern filesystems have to work around this in their write_inode method by waiting for the pages themselves. I already fixed the same ordering issue in fsync, and the writeback code is next on the agenda. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
