Re: Status of buffered write path (deadlock fixes)

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Steven Whitehouse wrote:

Hmm, doesn't look like we can do this either because at least GFS2
uses BH_New for its own special things.


What makes you say that? As far as I know we are not doing anything we
shouldn't with this flag, and if we are, then I'm quite happy to
consider fixing it up so that we don't,

Bad wording. Many other filesystems seem to only make use of buffer_new
between prepare and commit_write.

gfs2 seems to at least test it in a lot of places, so it is hard to know
whether we can change the current semantics or not. I didn't mean that
gfs2 is doing anything wrong.

So can we clear it in commit_write?

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