From: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
To: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: JFS Discussion <jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
mc@cs.stanford.edu
Subject: Re: [CHECKER] writes not always synchronous on JFS with O_SYNC?
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:47:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87u0n331k1.fsf@benpfaff.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1111520471.8082.9.camel@localhost> (Dave Kleikamp's message of "Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:41:11 -0600")
Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> writes:
> This patch to jfs_fsck fixes the problem. It wasn't really an issue
> with O_SYNC at all, although I believe there are O_SYNC issues that need
> to be resolved. The data itself should be sync'd correctly, as
> generic_file_write checks for the O_SYNC flag. The missing piece in jfs
> is that metadata changes to the inode may not always be making it to the
> disk when they should.
Wow, that's an amazingly fast fix. Thanks! If I have time
today, I'll re-run the checker after applying your patch.
--
Ben Pfaff
email: blp@cs.stanford.edu
web: http://benpfaff.org
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-22 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-21 21:10 [CHECKER] writes not always synchronous on JFS with O_SYNC? Ben Pfaff
2005-03-22 13:43 ` Dave Kleikamp
2005-03-22 19:41 ` Dave Kleikamp
2005-03-22 19:47 ` Ben Pfaff [this message]
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