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/ext2/inode.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ext2/inode.c b/fs/ext2/inode.c index dbfe9098a124..fb91c61aa6d6 100644 --- a/fs/ext2/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext2/inode.c @@ -94,8 +94,9 @@ void ext2_evict_inode(struct inode * inode) if (inode->i_blocks) ext2_truncate_blocks(inode, 0); ext2_xattr_delete_inode(inode); + } else { + sync_mapping_buffers(&inode->i_data); } - invalidate_inode_buffers(inode); clear_inode(inode); -- 2.51.0