Re: [patch 4/7] fs: preserve inode dirty bits on failed metadatawriteback

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 01:06:14AM +1100, npiggin@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Otherwise we think the inode is clean even if syncing failed.

The patch itself looks fine, but I'm not sure it's enough.  If we do
an synchronous writeout it could fail long after ->write_inode
has returned.

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