From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: do_sync() and XFSQA test 182 failures....
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:19:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081031221946.GA29761@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081031220349.GC19509@disturbed>
On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 09:03:49AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY))
> > > + xfs_sync_fsdata(XFS_M(sb), SYNC_WAIT);
> >
> > Not commenting on the rest yet, but I'm sure you noticed that before
> > your patch we ever called xfs_sync_fsdata with SYNC_WAIT at all. I
> > think with the current codebase there is nothing to guarantee we ever
> > write the superblock out to disk as xfs_wait_buftarg specificly
> > excludes the superblock (XBF_FS_MANAGED)
>
> Almost. unmount calls xfs_unmountfs_writesb() which does a
> synchronous write of the superblock. But in the current code sync(1)
> certainly never, ever triggers a superblock write we wait for...
True, missed it due to the opencoding. With my patch to kill the
shared readonly bits we should be able to make it use xfs_sync_fsdata
for consistency.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-31 22:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-30 8:50 do_sync() and XFSQA test 182 failures Dave Chinner
2008-10-30 22:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-31 0:12 ` Dave Chinner
2008-10-31 0:48 ` Dave Chinner
2008-10-31 20:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-31 22:03 ` Dave Chinner
2008-10-31 22:19 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-10-31 20:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-31 21:54 ` Dave Chinner
2008-10-31 22:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-31 4:02 ` Lachlan McIlroy
2008-10-31 13:06 ` Dave Chinner
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