[Cluster-devel] [PATCH] gfs2: Dirty source inode during rename

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Wed Feb 28 18:07:50 UTC 2018


On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 12:50:11PM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> Mark the source inode dirty during a rename instead of just updating the
> underlying buffer head.  Otherwise, fsync may find the inode clean and
> will then skip flushing the journal.  A subsequent power failure will
> cause the rename to be lost.  This happens in command sequences like:

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>




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