From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET v3.1 0/7] data integrity: Stabilize pages during
 writeback for various fses
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 18:18:36 +0200
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On Wed 11-05-11 00:24:58, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> writes:
> 
> >> Isn't it reallocated blocks too, and metadata too?
> >   Reallocated blocks - not really. For a block to be freed it cannot be
> > under writeback and when it's freed no writeback is started.
> 
> Sure for data -> data reallocated case. metadata -> data/metadata is
> still there.
  Unless you properly use bforget() (which you should I think). But I have
not really checked this in detail for a while.

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

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