Re: [PATCH 4/4] jbd2: don't dirty original metadata buffer on abort

From: Theodore Tso
Date: Mon Oct 13 2008 - 22:58:35 EST


On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 01:36:42PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> > This patch prevents original metadata buffers from being dirtied
> > on abort by clearing BH_JBDDirty flag from those buffers. Thus,
> > no metadata buffers are written to the filesystem without journaling.
>
> It's not my place to Ack such patches, but I noticed this bug
> during Plumbers, and Eric and Andreas pointed me to this patch, which
> fixes it quite nicely. Just $0.02 :-)

Already pushed to Linus, and in mainline. :-)

- Ted
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