Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 12/17] ocfs2: Update syncing aftersplicing to match generic version

From: Joel Becker
Date: Mon Aug 24 2009 - 14:41:12 EST


On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:35:43AM -0700, Mark Fasheh wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 07:24:02PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > Update ocfs2 specific splicing code to use generic syncing helper. The sync now
> > does not happen under rw_lock because generic_write_sync() acquires i_mutex
> > which ranks above rw_lock. That should not matter because standard fsync path
> > does not hold it either.
>
> Thanks Jan,
>
> Acked-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@xxxxxxxx>

<aol>Me too!</aol>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@xxxxxxxxxx>

Joel

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