From: Mark Fasheh Allow file systems supporting ->delete_inode() to call truncate_inode_pages() on their own. OCFS2 wants this so it can query the cluster before making a final decision on whether to wipe an inode from disk or not. In some corner cases an inode marked on the local node via voting may not actually get orphaned. A good example is node death before the transaction moving the inode to the orphan dir commits to the journal. Without this patch, the truncate_inode_pages() call in generic_delete_inode() would discard valid data for such inodes. During earlier discussion in the 2.6.13 merge plan thread, Christoph Hellwig indicated that other file systems might also find this useful. IMHO, the best solution would be to just allow ->drop_inode() to do the cluster query but it seems that would require a substantial reworking of that section of the code. Assuming it is safe to call write_inode_now() in ocfs2_delete_inode() for those inodes which won't actually get wiped, this solution should get us by for now. Trivial testing of this patch (and a related OCFS2 update) has shown this to avoid the corruption I'm seeing. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/inode.c | 12 +++++++----- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/inode.c~move-truncate_inode_pages-into-delete_inode fs/inode.c --- 25/fs/inode.c~move-truncate_inode_pages-into-delete_inode Mon Jul 11 15:06:08 2005 +++ 25-akpm/fs/inode.c Mon Jul 11 15:06:08 2005 @@ -1028,19 +1028,21 @@ void generic_delete_inode(struct inode * inodes_stat.nr_inodes--; spin_unlock(&inode_lock); - if (inode->i_data.nrpages) - truncate_inode_pages(&inode->i_data, 0); - security_inode_delete(inode); if (op->delete_inode) { void (*delete)(struct inode *) = op->delete_inode; if (!is_bad_inode(inode)) DQUOT_INIT(inode); - /* s_op->delete_inode internally recalls clear_inode() */ + /* Filesystems implementing their own + * s_op->delete_inode are required to call + * truncate_inode_pages and clear_inode() + * internally */ delete(inode); - } else + } else { + truncate_inode_pages(&inode->i_data, 0); clear_inode(inode); + } spin_lock(&inode_lock); hlist_del_init(&inode->i_hash); spin_unlock(&inode_lock); _