Revert "g_file_set_contents(): don't fsync on ext3/4"

We didn't actually do any real-world testing of this, and
unsurprisingly it turns out to break in at least one widely-used
configuration (Fedora 19 x86_64, ext4 on LVM).

This reverts commit 9d0c17b50102267a5029b58b1f44efbad82d8f03.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701560

diff --git a/glib/gfileutils.c b/glib/gfileutils.c
index b6ca3bb..2980098 100644 (file)
--- a/glib/gfileutils.c
+++ b/glib/gfileutils.c
@@ -1088,16 +1088,9 @@ write_to_temp_file (const gchar  *contents,
     /* On Linux, on btrfs, skip the fsync since rename-over-existing is
      * guaranteed to be atomic and this is the only case in which we
      * would fsync() anyway.
-     *
-     * ext3 and ext4 are also safe in this respect under the default
-     * mount options (and if someone picks non-default options to
-     * improve their performance at the cost of reliability, who are we
-     * to argue?)
-     *
-     * Note: EXT[234]_SUPER_MAGIC are equal.
      */
 
-    if (fstatfs (fd, &buf) == 0 && (buf.f_type == BTRFS_SUPER_MAGIC || buf.f_type == EXT3_SUPER_MAGIC))
+    if (fstatfs (fd, &buf) == 0 && buf.f_type == BTRFS_SUPER_MAGIC)
       goto no_fsync;
   }
 #endif