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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ubifs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ubifs/super.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/super.c b/fs/ubifs/super.c index 884beed1dcb8..13e90b0dd95d 100644 --- a/fs/ubifs/super.c +++ b/fs/ubifs/super.c @@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ static void ubifs_destroy_inode(struct inode *inode) */ static int ubifs_write_inode(struct inode *inode, int wait) { - int err; + int err = 0; struct ubifs_info *c = inode->i_sb->s_fs_info; struct ubifs_inode *ui = ubifs_inode(inode); @@ -299,10 +299,18 @@ static int ubifs_write_inode(struct inode *inode, int wait) return 0; } - dbg_gen("inode %lu, mode %#x", inode->i_ino, (int)inode->i_mode); - err = ubifs_jnl_write_inode(c, inode, 0); - if (err) - ubifs_err("can't write inode %lu, error %d", inode->i_ino, err); + /* + * As an optimization, do not write orphan inodes to the media just + * because this is not needed. + */ + dbg_gen("inode %lu, mode %#x, nlink %u", + inode->i_ino, (int)inode->i_mode, inode->i_nlink); + if (inode->i_nlink) { + err = ubifs_jnl_write_inode(c, inode, 0); + if (err) + ubifs_err("can't write inode %lu, error %d", + inode->i_ino, err); + } ui->dirty = 0; mutex_unlock(&ui->ui_mutex); |