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authorBen Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>2008-10-21 11:12:00 +0100
committerBen Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>2008-10-21 11:12:00 +0100
commitc3380942e6699ed5b3e3f37b49ceb724b7699813 (patch)
tree516d791cdfd1c7f99a29f71e1a7bba8f75af96e1 /fs/ext4/balloc.c
parent0ffda6cca2c66e42d0ad65719f58c637ed180b05 (diff)
parent2515ddc6db8eb49a79f0fe5e67ff09ac7c81eab4 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 into s3c64xx
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/balloc.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/balloc.c12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/balloc.c b/fs/ext4/balloc.c
index bd2ece22882..b9821be709b 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/balloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/balloc.c
@@ -568,8 +568,16 @@ void ext4_free_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
/* this isn't the right place to decide whether block is metadata
* inode.c/extents.c knows better, but for safety ... */
- if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) || S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode) ||
- ext4_should_journal_data(inode))
+ if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) || S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode))
+ metadata = 1;
+
+ /* We need to make sure we don't reuse
+ * block released untill the transaction commit.
+ * writeback mode have weak data consistency so
+ * don't force data as metadata when freeing block
+ * for writeback mode.
+ */
+ if (metadata == 0 && !ext4_should_writeback_data(inode))
metadata = 1;
sb = inode->i_sb;