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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2011-07-23 01:21:38 +0200
committerJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2011-07-23 01:49:00 +0200
commitb22570d9abb3d844e65c15c8bc0d57a78129e3b4 (patch)
tree455217fe8cac7529c1ed6ce351cde629729c90c4 /Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt
parent03b5bb342978f99f75fb36d69cd29bab32109fd4 (diff)
ext3: Fix data corruption in inodes with journalled data
When journalling data for an inode (either because it is a symlink or because the filesystem is mounted in data=journal mode), ext3_evict_inode() can discard unwritten data by calling truncate_inode_pages(). This is because we don't mark the buffer / page dirty when journalling data but only add the buffer to the running transaction and thus mm does not know there are still unwritten data. Fix the problem by carefully tracking transaction containing inode's data, committing this transaction, and writing uncheckpointed buffers when inode should be reaped. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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