Re: [PATCH] NBD: replace kill_bdev() with __invalidate_device()

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Tue May 10 2016 - 05:24:47 EST




On 23/04/2016 04:17, Ratna Manoj wrote:
> Ext4 can be fixed with the this patch:
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg51112.html
> It did not make to the kernel. It checks the state of the buffer head
> before committing.

The patch did not make it, but Ted Ts'o proposed an alternative
(modifying __sync_dirty_buffer).

Paolo