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ext4: Make fsync sync new parent directories in no-journal mode

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Add a new ext4 state to tell us when a file has been newly created; use
that state in ext4_sync_file in no-journal mode to tell us when we need
to sync the parent directory as well as the inode and data itself.  This
fixes a problem in which a panic or power failure may lose the entire
file even when using fsync, since the parent directory entry is lost.

Addresses-Google-Bug: #2480057

Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Frank Mayhar
2010-05-17 08:00:00 -04:00
committed by Theodore Ts'o
parent 60e6679e28
commit 14ece1028b
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@ -1180,6 +1180,7 @@ enum {
EXT4_STATE_DA_ALLOC_CLOSE, /* Alloc DA blks on close */
EXT4_STATE_EXT_MIGRATE, /* Inode is migrating */
EXT4_STATE_DIO_UNWRITTEN, /* need convert on dio done*/
EXT4_STATE_NEWENTRY, /* File just added to dir */
};
#define EXT4_INODE_BIT_FNS(name, field) \