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Curt Wohlgemuth authored
ext4 has taken the stance that, in the absence of a journal, when an fsync/fdatasync of an inode is done, the parent directory should be sync'ed if this inode entry is new. ext4_sync_parent(), which implements this, does indeed sync the dirent pages for parent directories, but it does not sync the directory *inode*. This patch fixes this. Also now return error status from ext4_sync_parent(). I tested this using a power fail test, which panics a machine running a file server getting requests from a client. Without this patch, on about every other test run, the server is missing many, many files that had been synced. With this patch, on > 6 runs, I see zero files being lost. Google-Bug-Id: 4179519 Signed-off-by:
Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com> Signed-off-by:
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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