Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 10 May 2001 22:01:00 -0300 (BRT) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] writepage method changes |
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On Thu, 10 May 2001, Chris Mason wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, May 09, 2001 10:51:17 PM -0300 Marcelo Tosatti > <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, 9 May 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > >> Locked for the "not wrote out case" (I will fix my patch now, thanks) > > > > I just found out that there are filesystems (eg reiserfs) which write out > > data even if an error ocurred, which means the unlocking must be done by > > the filesystems, always. > > I'm not horribly attached to the way reiserfs is doing it right now. If > reiserfs writepage manages to map any blocks, it writes them to disk, even > if mapping other blocks in the page failed. These are only data blocks, so > there are no special consistency rules. If we need to change this, it is > not a big deal.
No need for that.
Its saner leaving this control to the filesystems.
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