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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: npiggin@kernel.dk
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/7] fs: preserve inode dirty bits on failed metadata writeback
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:59:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101129145936.GC26076@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101123140707.922192750@kernel.dk>

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 01:06:14AM +1100, npiggin@kernel.dk wrote:
> Otherwise we think the inode is clean even if syncing failed.

The patch itself looks fine, but I'm not sure it's enough.  If we do
an synchronous writeout it could fail long after ->write_inode
has returned.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-29 14:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-23 14:06 [patch 0/7] icache dirty / sync fixes npiggin
2010-11-23 14:06 ` [patch 1/7] fs: mark_inode_dirty barrier fix npiggin
2010-11-23 14:06 ` [patch 2/7] fs: simple fsync race fix npiggin
2010-11-29 14:58   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-30  0:05     ` Nick Piggin
2010-11-23 14:06 ` [patch 3/7] fs: introduce inode writeback helpers npiggin
2010-11-29 15:13   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-30  0:22     ` Nick Piggin
2010-11-23 14:06 ` [patch 4/7] fs: preserve inode dirty bits on failed metadata writeback npiggin
2010-11-29 14:59   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-11-30  0:08     ` Nick Piggin
2010-11-23 14:06 ` [patch 5/7] fs: ext2 inode sync fix npiggin
2010-11-30 11:26   ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-11-23 14:06 ` [patch 6/7] fs: fsync optimisations npiggin
2010-11-29 15:03   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-30  0:11     ` Nick Piggin
2010-11-23 14:06 ` [patch 7/7] fs: fix or note I_DIRTY handling bugs in filesystems npiggin
2010-11-23 15:04   ` Steven Whitehouse
2010-11-23 22:51   ` Dave Chinner
2010-11-24  0:23     ` Nick Piggin

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