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| author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2009-04-03 07:34:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2009-04-03 07:34:35 +0200 |
| commit | f7ab34ea723ed304b19698efca85d6f40cecd99b (patch) | |
| tree | 28a609a654a24bc40d694fd2ec87a1f785c97c79 /include | |
| parent | ext3: Use WRITE_SYNC for commits which are caused by fsync() (diff) | |
| download | linux-f7ab34ea723ed304b19698efca85d6f40cecd99b.tar.xz linux-f7ab34ea723ed304b19698efca85d6f40cecd99b.zip | |
ext3: Add replace-on-truncate hueristics for data=writeback mode
In data=writeback mode, start an asynchronous flush when closing a
file which had been previously truncated down to zero. This lowers
the probability of data loss in the case of applications that attempt
to replace a file using truncate.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/ext3_fs.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/ext3_fs.h b/include/linux/ext3_fs.h index dd495b8c3091..d2630c56cb34 100644 --- a/include/linux/ext3_fs.h +++ b/include/linux/ext3_fs.h @@ -208,6 +208,7 @@ static inline __u32 ext3_mask_flags(umode_t mode, __u32 flags) #define EXT3_STATE_JDATA 0x00000001 /* journaled data exists */ #define EXT3_STATE_NEW 0x00000002 /* inode is newly created */ #define EXT3_STATE_XATTR 0x00000004 /* has in-inode xattrs */ +#define EXT3_STATE_FLUSH_ON_CLOSE 0x00000008 /* Used to pass group descriptor data when online resize is done */ struct ext3_new_group_input { |