Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 28 Aug 2002 17:18:13 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [Patch 5/8] 2.4.20-pre4/ext3: Fix O_SYNC for non-data-journaled modes. |
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On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 04:45:20PM +0100, Stephen Tweedie wrote: > ext3 has its own code which marks buffers dirty, in addition to the setting > done by the core generic_commit_write code. However, the core code does > > if (!atomic_set_buffer_dirty(bh)) { > __mark_dirty(bh); > buffer_insert_inode_queue(bh, inode); > > so if ext3 marks the buffer dirty itself, the core fails to put it on the > per-inode list of dirty buffers. Hence, fsync_inode_buffers() misses it. > > The fix is to let ext3 put the buffer on the inode queue manually when > walking the page's buffer lists in its page write code.
This patch conflicts with the b_inode as bool patch you recently ACKed..
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