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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Arthur Jones <ajones@riverbed.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"sandeen@redhat.com" <sandeen@redhat.com>,
	"linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
	"sct@redhat.com" <sct@redhat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext3: wait on all pending commits in ext3_sync_fs
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 17:47:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081103224755.GG18117@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081103214840.GA3371@ajones-laptop.nbttech.com>

On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 01:48:40PM -0800, Arthur Jones wrote:
> > - should we clear s_dirt if log_wait_commit() didn't work?
> > 
> > - ext3_force_commit() clears s_dirt also
> 
> I'm not sure if it makes sense, but ATM I don't think it
> hurts anything given that ext3_write_super is just sb->s_dirt = 0;

I want to look at this some more, but it's possible we should just
remove all of the references to sb->s_dirt completely.  Also, the
comment just above ext[34]_write_super() is out of date since before
2.6.0.

						- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-03 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-24 18:37 ext3: slow symlink corruption on umount Arthur Jones
2008-10-27 16:54 ` Arthur Jones
2008-10-29 19:54   ` Arthur Jones
2008-10-29 20:36     ` Eric Sandeen
2008-10-29 21:09       ` Theodore Tso
2008-10-30 13:38         ` Eric Sandeen
2008-10-30 13:55           ` Arthur Jones
2008-10-31  9:47           ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-30 17:40       ` Arthur Jones
2008-10-30 18:03         ` Eric Sandeen
2008-10-30 21:34           ` Arthur Jones
2008-10-31 17:24             ` Arthur Jones
2008-10-31 18:37               ` Eric Sandeen
2008-10-30 18:32         ` Arthur Jones
2008-11-03 18:44       ` [PATCH] ext3: wait on all pending commits in ext3_sync_fs Arthur Jones
2008-11-03 19:33         ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-03 20:14           ` Arthur Jones
2008-11-03 20:37             ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-03 20:58               ` Arthur Jones
2008-11-03 21:13                 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-03 21:19                   ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-03 21:27                     ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-03 21:48                       ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-03 22:01                       ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-03 22:18                         ` Arthur Jones
2008-11-03 22:27                         ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-03 22:55                           ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-03 23:01                             ` Arthur Jones
2008-11-03 23:12                               ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-04 16:26                                 ` Arthur Jones
2008-11-03 21:48               ` Arthur Jones
2008-11-03 22:47                 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2008-12-18 23:17             ` Jan Kara
2008-12-18 23:37               ` Eric Sandeen
2008-12-19  0:27                 ` Jan Kara
2008-12-19  1:34                   ` Eric Sandeen
2008-12-22 19:15                     ` Ric Wheeler
2008-12-22 22:57                       ` Andreas Dilger
2008-12-23  0:09                         ` Ric Wheeler
2008-12-23 15:56                         ` Eric Sandeen
2009-01-12 22:28                 ` Jan Kara
2009-01-13 17:21                   ` Eric Sandeen
2009-01-13 22:14               ` Eric Sandeen
2009-01-14  4:24                 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-14 17:26                   ` Eric Sandeen
2009-01-14 17:27                   ` Jan Kara
2009-01-29 18:27                     ` Mike Snitzer
2009-01-29 20:05                       ` Eric Sandeen
2008-11-03 19:59         ` Eric Sandeen

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