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The first fix is fixing handling of\nuninitialized inodes in recently_deleted() used in nojournal mode which was\nleading to occasional fstests failures for me (which became much more likely\nafter the second patch due to timing changes). The second patch fixes a bug in\next4_fsync() which was not properly writing out inode metadata in nojournal\nmode. It is kind of a band aid but proper solution is going to be rather\nintrusive and practically unbackportable so I think having it is worth it.\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHonza"}