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From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com, reiser@namesys.com,
	reiserfs-dev@namesys.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] reiserfs:fix journaling issue regarding fsync()
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 08:24:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200606300824.12352.mason@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.20.2.20060630094908.0411c9d0@172.19.0.2>

On Thursday 29 June 2006 21:36, Hisashi Hifumi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At 09:47 06/06/30, Chris Mason wrote:
>  >Thanks for the patch.  One problem is this will bump the transaction
>  > marker for atime updates too.  I'd rather see the change done inside
>  >reiserfs_file_write.
>
> I did not realize that an atime updates is also influenced.
>
>  >reiserfs_file_write already updates the transaction when blocks are
>  > allocated, but you're right that to be 100% correct we should cover the
>  > case when i_size increases but new blocks are not added.  Was this the
>  > case you were trying to fix?
>
> Yes, that's right.
>
> So, I remade my patch as follows.
> I tested this patch and confirmed that the kernel with this patch work
> well.

This is correct, excpet you need to put the update_inode_transaction call 
inside reiserfs_write_lock/unlock.

-chris

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-30 12:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-20  8:43 [PATCH] reiserfs:fix journaling issue regarding fsync() Hisashi Hifumi
2006-06-23 10:15 ` Vladimir V. Saveliev
2006-06-23 15:53   ` Hans Reiser
2006-06-26  4:39   ` Hisashi Hifumi
2006-06-30  0:47 ` Chris Mason
2006-06-30  1:36   ` Hisashi Hifumi
2006-06-30 12:24     ` Chris Mason [this message]
2006-06-30 22:59       ` Hisashi Hifumi
2006-07-01 19:34         ` Chris Mason
2006-07-02 15:34           ` Hans Reiser
2006-07-03  1:31             ` Hisashi Hifumi
2006-07-03  1:36               ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-03  2:03                 ` Hisashi Hifumi

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