From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>

Turn on barriers by default for ext3.  mount -o barrier=0 will turn them off. 
It also changes the ext3 fsync call to trigger a barrier when a commit isn't
done.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
---


diff -puN fs/ext3/fsync.c~make-ext3-mount-default-to-barrier=1 fs/ext3/fsync.c
--- a/fs/ext3/fsync.c~make-ext3-mount-default-to-barrier=1
+++ a/fs/ext3/fsync.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/writeback.h>
 #include <linux/jbd.h>
+#include <linux/blkdev.h>
 #include <linux/ext3_fs.h>
 #include <linux/ext3_jbd.h>
 
@@ -81,7 +82,10 @@ int ext3_sync_file(struct file * file, s
 			.sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL,
 			.nr_to_write = 0, /* sys_fsync did this */
 		};
+		journal_t *journal = EXT3_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_journal;
 		ret = sync_inode(inode, &wbc);
+		if (journal && (journal->j_flags & JFS_BARRIER))
+			blkdev_issue_flush(inode->i_sb->s_bdev, NULL);
 	}
 out:
 	return ret;
diff -puN fs/ext3/super.c~make-ext3-mount-default-to-barrier=1 fs/ext3/super.c
--- a/fs/ext3/super.c~make-ext3-mount-default-to-barrier=1
+++ a/fs/ext3/super.c
@@ -1427,6 +1427,8 @@ static int ext3_fill_super (struct super
 	sbi->s_resuid = le16_to_cpu(es->s_def_resuid);
 	sbi->s_resgid = le16_to_cpu(es->s_def_resgid);
 
+	/* enable barriers by default */
+	set_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, BARRIER);
 	set_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, RESERVATION);
 
 	if (!parse_options ((char *) data, sb, &journal_inum, &journal_devnum,
_