Re: [PATCHES]

["Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>]

Hi,

On Thu, 27 May 1999 15:55:37 -0400 (EDT), Chuck Lever <cel@monkey.org> said:

> this patch appears to combine the "block allocation deadlock" patch with
> the original fsync reimplementation... correct?

Yep, and that was unintentional.  Fixed.

> have you experienced and/or fixed the 5-second self-destruct problem i
> mentioned to you?

No, and yes --- I needed to add an invalidate_inode_buffers() during
inode invalidation.  Unmounting with writes pending appears to work fine
now.

Fixed patch for 2.2.9 is at

ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/sct/fs/misc/fsync-2.2.9-a.diff

--Stephen
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