Excerpts from Joel Becker's message of 2011-02-23 15:24:47 -0500:

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:45:44AM -0500, Martin K. Petersen wrote:

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Also, DIX is only the tip of the iceberg. Many other impending
technologies feature checksums and require pages to be stable during I/O
due to checksumming, encryption and so on.

The VM is already trying to do the right thing. We just need the
relevant filesystems to catch up.

    ocfs2 handles stable metadata for its checksums when feeding
things to the journal.  If we're doing pagecache-based I/O, is the
pagecache going to help here for data?

Data is much easier than metadata.  All you really need is to wait on
writeback in file_write, wait on writeback in page_mkwrite, and make
sure you don't free blocks back to the allocator that are actively under
IO.

I expect the hard part to be jbd and metadata in ext34.

-chris