From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fix fsync on ext3 and ext4 (v2)
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 14:02:50 +0100
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Cc: tytso@mit.edu, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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  Hi,

>   this is a second try for a patchset which makes ext3 and ext4 properly force
> a transaction commit when needed. We now do not rely on buffer dirty bits
> (which does not work as pdflush can just clear them without forcing a
> transaction commit) but rather keep transaction ids that need to be committed
> for each inode.
>   Since last version, I've implemented Aneesh's and Curt's comments and also
> fixed a missing initialization of the fields. I've tested that now the patch
> works correctly for uninitialized extents as well as for standard writes.  If
> noone objects, would you merge the ext4 part Ted? I'll take care of the ext3
> patch.
  Aneesh, Ted, is the second version of the patchset fine with you?

									Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SuSE CR Labs