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From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix blkdev_issue_flush() failure handling
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:47:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1238413667.30488.2.camel@think.oraclecorp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49D03AE1.8070009@redhat.com>

On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 22:22 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Theodore Tso wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 12:43:22PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> >> As long as we keep the call there this is probably good, but after
> >> talking w/ Chris Mason, I think the call is extraneous anyway and should
> >> probably just be removed...
> >>
> > 
> > Yes, I agree, but it takes a lot of digging to be completely sure of
> > that it's safe to remove it.  Interestingly, it was you who added the
> > patch which added the call to blkdev_issue_flush():
> 
> > commit d755fb384250d6bd7fd18a0930e71965acc8e72e
> > Author: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
> > Date:   Fri Jul 11 19:27:31 2008 -0400
> 
> 
> Yes, it was.  Although I got the idea when hch pointed out that SuSE did
> this... thanks to Chris.  It's come full circle.  :)

Grin.  I'm not sure the I_DIRTY checks alone are enough to decide that a
commit is required though.  I think the inode could be clean but still
have metadata that needs commit.

-chris



  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-30 11:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-29 17:28 [PATCH] ext4: fix blkdev_issue_flush() failure handling Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-03-29 17:43 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-03-30  2:25   ` Theodore Tso
2009-03-30  3:22     ` Eric Sandeen
2009-03-30 11:47       ` Chris Mason [this message]
2009-03-30 13:01         ` Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2009-03-30 13:24           ` Chris Mason
2009-03-31  4:28             ` Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2009-03-30 14:25           ` Theodore Tso
2009-03-31  4:33             ` Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2009-03-30 15:26           ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-03-31  4:23             ` Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2009-03-30 17:46         ` Theodore Tso

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