[PATCH] xfs: log timestamp changes to the source inode in rename
Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com
Thu Dec 9 04:36:05 CST 2010
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 05:16:41AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Now that we don't mark VFS inodes dirty anymore for internal timestamp changes,
> but rely on the transaction subsystem to push them out, we need to explicitly
> log the source inode in rename after updating it's timestamps to make sure
> the changes actually get forced out by sync/fsync or an AIL push.
>
> We already account for the fourth inode in the log reservation, as a rename
> of directories needs to update the nlink field, so just adding the
> xfs_trans_log_inode call is enough.
>
> This fixes the xfsqa 065 regression introduced by:
>
> "xfs: don't use vfs writeback for pure metadata modifications"
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
Looks good.
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>
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Dave Chinner
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