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From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
	"Tigran A. Aivazian" <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>,
	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>,
	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>,
	reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] exofs: simple fsync race fix
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 13:44:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D4A9533.4090304@panasas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101125115033.GA3643@amd>

On 11/25/2010 01:50 PM, Nick Piggin wrote:
> This is fine, we'll get it merged before 2.6.37, just give a couple of
> days for review, I haven't had much confirmation from other vfs people
> about these problems.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nick
> 

Hi Dear Nick.

So I was cleaning the table and I fell on this patch. What ever happened
to it? should I push it through my tree?

Thanks
Boaz

> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 12:52:08PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>> From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
>>
>> It is incorrect to test inode dirty bits without participating in the inode
>> writeback protocol. Inode writeback sets I_SYNC and clears I_DIRTY_?, then
>> writes out the particular bits, then clears I_SYNC when it is done. BTW. it
>> may not completely write all pages out, so I_DIRTY_PAGES would get set
>> again.
>>


  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-03 11:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-25  7:49 [RFC][PATCH] Possible data integrity problems in lots of filesystems? Nick Piggin
2010-11-25  9:28 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-11-25 10:06   ` Nick Piggin
2010-11-25 10:51     ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-11-25 10:52       ` [PATCH] exofs: simple fsync race fix Boaz Harrosh
2010-11-25 11:50         ` Nick Piggin
2011-02-03 11:44           ` Boaz Harrosh [this message]
2010-11-25 11:47       ` [RFC][PATCH] Possible data integrity problems in lots of filesystems? Nick Piggin
2010-11-25 12:18         ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-11-25 11:54 ` Nick Piggin
2010-11-25 12:01   ` Christoph Hellwig

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