Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: don't ignore writing pages on fsync during checkpoint=disable

[Chao Yu]

On 2021/8/24 1:01, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> We must flush dirty pages when calling fsync() during checkpoint=disable.
> Returning zero makes inode being clear, which fails to flush them when
> enabling checkpoint back even by sync_inodes_sb().

Without this patch, file can be persisted via checkpoint=enable as well, my
testcase:

- mount -t f2fs -o checkpoint=disable,checkpoint_nomerge /dev/pmem0 /mnt/f2fs/
- cp file /mnt/f2fs/
- xfs_io /mnt/f2fs/file -c "fdatasync"
- mount -o remount,checkpoint=enable /dev/pmem0 /mnt/f2fs/
- umount /mnt/f2fs
- mount /dev/pmem0 /mnt/f2fs
- md5sum file /mnt/f2fs/file
chksum values are the same.

Am I missing something?

Thanks,