[Patch 10/10]: ext3 online resize: make group-add asynchronous.

[Stephen Tweedie]

There's not much to be gained from making the resize group-add operation
fully synchronous.  It's already atomic by virtue of the journal, and a
resize operation usually doesn't add just one group, but many.  The real
need is to sync things up at the end of the *entire* resize, not after
each individual group-add; and by syncing each group separately, the
whole resize operation is made much, much slower if we're running on a
live filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Tweedie <sct@xxxxxxxxxx>

--- linux-2.6.9-rc2-mm4/fs/ext3/resize.c.=K0009=.orig
+++ linux-2.6.9-rc2-mm4/fs/ext3/resize.c
@@ -872,7 +872,6 @@ int ext3_group_add(struct super_block *s
 
 exit_journal:
 	unlock_super(sb);
-	handle->h_sync = 1;
 	if ((err2 = ext3_journal_stop(handle)) && !err)
 		err = err2;
 	if (!err) {
-
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