There are only very few filesystems using generic metadata buffer head tracking and everybody is paying the overhead. When we remove this tracking for inode reclaim code .evict will start to see inodes with metadata buffers attached so write them out and prune them. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara --- fs/fat/inode.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/fat/inode.c b/fs/fat/inode.c index 3cc5fb01afa1..ce88602b0d57 100644 --- a/fs/fat/inode.c +++ b/fs/fat/inode.c @@ -657,8 +657,10 @@ static void fat_evict_inode(struct inode *inode) if (!inode->i_nlink) { inode->i_size = 0; fat_truncate_blocks(inode, 0); - } else + } else { + sync_mapping_buffers(inode->i_mapping); fat_free_eofblocks(inode); + } invalidate_inode_buffers(inode); clear_inode(inode); -- 2.51.0