It's confusing to return success while redirtying the inode at the same time in ->write_inode(). Return -EAGAIN to indicate that we've not finished with this inode. Impact: it's a cleanup, not bug fix. CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/write.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-next.orig/fs/nfs/write.c 2011-06-10 21:52:34.000000000 +0800 +++ linux-next/fs/nfs/write.c 2011-06-10 21:52:37.000000000 +0800 @@ -1521,7 +1521,7 @@ static int nfs_commit_unstable_pages(str { struct nfs_inode *nfsi = NFS_I(inode); int flags = FLUSH_SYNC; - int ret = 0; + int ret = -EAGAIN; if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE) { /* Don't commit yet if this is a non-blocking flush and there -- 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