On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 12:04 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 10:30:00PM -0500, Alex Elder wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 10:34 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > We do need a barrier for the first buffer of a split log write. Otherwise
> > > we might incorrectly stamp the tail LSN into transactions in the first
> > > block, or not flush data I/O before updating the inode size.
> >
> > I'm not sure whether "first block" means the one at the beginning
> > of the log, or the one at the beginning of a split log write.
>
> It means beginning of the split write. I can fix up the commit message
> if you want.
>
Don't bother, I will change it to:
We do need a barrier for the first buffer of a split log write.
Otherwise we might incorrectly stamp the tail LSN into transactions
in the first part of the split write, or not flush data I/O before
updating the inode size.
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