Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030254AbWBMXDc (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:03:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030256AbWBMXDc (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:03:32 -0500 Received: from pproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.166.183]:64379 "EHLO pproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030254AbWBMXDb convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:03:31 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=QwspeUEg5Z/fELOMzaeehazIwf2W/0RHoqvZQnx2hQxQ5uR9yQA/zPgfiVjXISoqGb5QVlV8Bi4UxjU3si7Do7MM5uTExXfhaW6xlGB3iAJM2nRa8zJ6KoY18OYet1ayQtMj3Ixsu8z8mVjiolHexoPZM293RQWN+MA5qohzLnw= Message-ID: Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:03:26 -0800 From: Joshua Hudson To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: sb_bread & bforget MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 565 Lines: 11 New filesystem is using BTrees for directories. An update will touch multiple blocks, loaded into buffer_head structures with sb_bread. If update fails (only possible causes are read error & disk full), is it kosher to call bforget on all modified buffer_head structures, or does that have some unintended consequences? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/