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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: journal start/stop in ext3_writeback_writepage()
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:21:24 -0800
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Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> But I still don't understand why this can't happen
>  thro original code ..
> 
>  	journal_destory()
>  		iput(journal inode)
>  			do_writepages()
>  				generic_writepages()
>  					ext3_writeback_writepage()
>  						journal_start()
> 
>  what am i missing ?

presumably there are never any dirty pages or inodes when we run
journal_destroy().