I also have commented a possible bug in existing ext2 code, marked with XXX.

Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

This gives the filesystem more information about the writeback that
is happening.  Trond requested this for the NFS unstable write handling,
and other filesystems might benefit from this too by beeing able to
distinguish between the different callers in more detail.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

When an IO error happens while writing metadata buffers, we should better
report it and call ext2_error since the filesystem is probably no longer
consistent.  Sometimes such IO errors happen while flushing thread does
background writeback, the buffer gets later evicted from memory, and thus
the only trace of the error remains as AS_EIO bit set in blockdevice's
mapping.  So we check this bit in ext2_fsync and report the error although
we cannot be really sure which buffer we failed to write.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

make messages produced by ext2 more unified. It should be
easy to parse.

dmesg before patch:
[ 4893.684892] reservations ON
[ 4893.684896] xip option not supported
[ 4893.684961] EXT2-fs warning: mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2
[ 4893.684964] EXT2-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running
e2fsck is recommended
[ 4893.684990] EXT II FS: 0.5b, 95/08/09, bs=1024, fs=1024, gc=2,
bpg=8192, ipg=1280, mo=80010]

dmesg after patch:
[ 4893.684892] EXT2-fs (loop0): reservations ON
[ 4893.684896] EXT2-fs (loop0): xip option not supported
[ 4893.684961] EXT2-fs (loop0): warning: mounting ext3 filesystem as
ext2
[ 4893.684964] EXT2-fs (loop0): warning: maximal mount count reached,
running e2fsck is recommended
[ 4893.684990] EXT2-fs (loop0): 0.5b, 95/08/09, bs=1024, fs=1024, gc=2,
bpg=8192, ipg=1280, mo=80010]

Signed-off-by: Alexey Fisher <bug-track@fisher-privat.net>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

One of our users is complaining that his backup tool is upset on ext2
(while it's happy on ext3, xfs, ...) because of the mtime change.

The problem is:

    mkdir foo
    mkdir bar
    mkdir foo/a

Now under ext2:
    mv foo/a foo/b

changes mtime of 'foo/a' (foo/b after the move).  That does not really
make sense and it does not happen under any other filesystem I've seen.

More complicated is:
    mv foo/a bar/a

This changes mtime of foo/a (bar/a after the move) and it makes some
sense since we had to update parent directory pointer of foo/a.  But
again, no other filesystem does this.  So after some thoughts I'd vote
for consistency and change ext2 to behave the same as other filesystems.

Do not update mtime of a moved directory.  Specs don't say anything
about it (neither that it should, nor that it should not be updated) and
other common filesystems (ext3, ext4, xfs, reiserfs, fat, ...) don't do
it.  So let's become more consistent.

Spotted by ronny.pretzsch@dfs.de, initial fix by Jörn Engel.

Reported-by: <ronny.pretzsch@dfs.de>
Cc: <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Jörn Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Ali Gholami Rudi <ali@rudi.ir>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

kill ext2_sync_file() (along with ext2/fsync.c), get rid of
ext2_update_inode() - it's an alias of ext2_write_inode().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>