Re: [RFC][PATCH] set_page_buffer_dirty should skip unmapped buffers

[Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>]

> On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 14:47 +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> 
> > > Andrew, what should we do ? Do you suggest handling this in jbd
> > > itself (like this patch) ?
> >   Actually that part of commit code needs rewrite anyway (and after that
> > rewrite you get rid of ll_rw_block()) because of other problems - the
> > code assumes that whenever buffer is locked, it is being written to disk
> > which is not true... I have some preliminary patches for that but they
> > are not very nice and so far I didn't have enough time to find a nice
> > solution.
> 
> Are you okay with current not-so-elegant fix ? 
  Actually I don't quite understand how it can happen what you describe
(so probably I missed something). How it can happen that some buffers
are unmapped while we are committing them?  journal_unmap_buffers()
checks whether we are not committing truncated buffers and if so, it
does not do anything to such buffers...
							Bye
								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SuSE CR Labs
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