From: Jan Kara Subject: [PATCH] ext2: Update also inode on disk when dir is IS_DIRSYNC Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:42:02 +0100 Message-ID: <1231850522-11074-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Jan Kara , Pavel Machek To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org We used to just write changed page for IS_DIRSYNC inodes. But we also have to update directory inode itself just for the case that we've allocated a new block and changed i_size. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara CC: Pavel Machek --- fs/ext2/dir.c | 5 ++--- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Andrew, would you please merge the patch? Ext3 and ext4 don't have this problem BTW. diff --git a/fs/ext2/dir.c b/fs/ext2/dir.c index 9a0fc40..7fba549 100644 --- a/fs/ext2/dir.c +++ b/fs/ext2/dir.c @@ -94,11 +94,10 @@ static int ext2_commit_chunk(struct page *page, loff_t pos, unsigned len) i_size_write(dir, pos+len); mark_inode_dirty(dir); } + unlock_page(page); if (IS_DIRSYNC(dir)) - err = write_one_page(page, 1); - else - unlock_page(page); + err = ext2_sync_inode(dir); return err; } -- 1.6.0.4