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author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2009-04-30 21:24:04 -0400 |
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committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2009-04-30 21:24:04 -0400 |
commit | 7234ab2a55e77784b44cf2d862136d9e41b8d98a (patch) | |
tree | cad3f1ee096243529125b3d6a028cc1426773b9c /Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt | |
parent | e2d670523c6c4ccb0fca9f3ab1b8f066d9aa57d6 (diff) |
ext4: Fix and simplify s_dirt handling
The s_dirt flag wasn't completely handled correctly, but it didn't
really matter when journalling was enabled. It turns out that when
ext4 runs without a journal, we don't clear s_dirt in places where we
should have, with the result that the high-level write_super()
function was writing the superblock when it wasn't necessary.
So we fix this by making ext4_commit_super() clear the s_dirt flag,
and removing many of the other places where s_dirt is manipulated.
When journalling is enabled, the s_dirt flag might be left set more
often, but s_dirt really doesn't matter when journalling is enabled.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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