On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 06:30:47PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Similar to the fsync issue fixed a while ago in commit > 2daea67e966dc0c42067ebea015ddac6834cef88 we need to write for data to > actually hit the disk before writing out the metadata to guarantee > data integrity for filesystems that modify the inode in the data I/O > completion path. Currently XFS and NFS handle this manually, and AFS > has a write_inode method that does nothing but waiting for data, while > others are possibly missing out on this. > > Fortunately this change has a lot less impact than the fsync change > as none of the write_inode methods starts data writeout of any form > by itself. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> The generic and XFS bits look OK to me. Acked-by: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
