Re: [PATCH] writepage method changes

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Thu, 10 May 2001, Chris Mason wrote:

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> On Wednesday, May 09, 2001 10:51:17 PM -0300 Marcelo Tosatti
> <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> > On Wed, 9 May 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
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> >> Locked for the "not wrote out case" (I will fix my patch now, thanks)
> > 
> > I just found out that there are filesystems (eg reiserfs) which write out
> > data even if an error ocurred, which means the unlocking must be done by
> > the filesystems, always. 
> 
> I'm not horribly attached to the way reiserfs is doing it right now.  If
> reiserfs writepage manages to map any blocks, it writes them to disk, even
> if mapping other blocks in the page failed.  These are only data blocks, so
> there are no special consistency rules.  If we need to change this, it is
> not a big deal.

No need for that.

Its saner leaving this control to the filesystems.