diff --git a/fs/ext3/file.c b/fs/ext3/file.c
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+/*
+ *  linux/fs/ext3/file.c
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995
+ * Remy Card (card@masi.ibp.fr)
+ * Laboratoire MASI - Institut Blaise Pascal
+ * Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
+ *
+ *  from
+ *
+ *  linux/fs/minix/file.c
+ *
+ *  Copyright (C) 1991, 1992  Linus Torvalds
+ *
+ *  ext3 fs regular file handling primitives
+ *
+ *  64-bit file support on 64-bit platforms by Jakub Jelinek
+ *	(jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz)
+ */
+
+#include <linux/time.h>
+#include <linux/fs.h>
+#include <linux/jbd.h>
+#include <linux/ext3_fs.h>
+#include <linux/ext3_jbd.h>
+#include "xattr.h"
+#include "acl.h"
+
+/*
+ * Called when an inode is released. Note that this is different
+ * from ext3_file_open: open gets called at every open, but release
+ * gets called only when /all/ the files are closed.
+ */
+static int ext3_release_file (struct inode * inode, struct file * filp)
+{
+	/* if we are the last writer on the inode, drop the block reservation */
+	if ((filp->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) &&
+			(atomic_read(&inode->i_writecount) == 1))
+		ext3_discard_reservation(inode);
+	if (is_dx(inode) && filp->private_data)
+		ext3_htree_free_dir_info(filp->private_data);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static ssize_t
+ext3_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t pos)
+{
+	struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
+	struct inode *inode = file->f_dentry->d_inode;
+	ssize_t ret;
+	int err;
+
+	ret = generic_file_aio_write(iocb, buf, count, pos);
+
+	/*
+	 * Skip flushing if there was an error, or if nothing was written.
+	 */
+	if (ret <= 0)
+		return ret;
+
+	/*
+	 * If the inode is IS_SYNC, or is O_SYNC and we are doing data
+	 * journalling then we need to make sure that we force the transaction
+	 * to disk to keep all metadata uptodate synchronously.
+	 */
+	if (file->f_flags & O_SYNC) {
+		/*
+		 * If we are non-data-journaled, then the dirty data has
+		 * already been flushed to backing store by generic_osync_inode,
+		 * and the inode has been flushed too if there have been any
+		 * modifications other than mere timestamp updates.
+		 *
+		 * Open question --- do we care about flushing timestamps too
+		 * if the inode is IS_SYNC?
+		 */
+		if (!ext3_should_journal_data(inode))
+			return ret;
+
+		goto force_commit;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * So we know that there has been no forced data flush.  If the inode
+	 * is marked IS_SYNC, we need to force one ourselves.
+	 */
+	if (!IS_SYNC(inode))
+		return ret;
+
+	/*
+	 * Open question #2 --- should we force data to disk here too?  If we
+	 * don't, the only impact is that data=writeback filesystems won't
+	 * flush data to disk automatically on IS_SYNC, only metadata (but
+	 * historically, that is what ext2 has done.)
+	 */
+
+force_commit:
+	err = ext3_force_commit(inode->i_sb);
+	if (err) 
+		return err;
+	return ret;
+}
+
+struct file_operations ext3_file_operations = {
+	.llseek		= generic_file_llseek,
+	.read		= do_sync_read,
+	.write		= do_sync_write,
+	.aio_read	= generic_file_aio_read,
+	.aio_write	= ext3_file_write,
+	.readv		= generic_file_readv,
+	.writev		= generic_file_writev,
+	.ioctl		= ext3_ioctl,
+	.mmap		= generic_file_mmap,
+	.open		= generic_file_open,
+	.release	= ext3_release_file,
+	.fsync		= ext3_sync_file,
+	.sendfile	= generic_file_sendfile,
+};
+
+struct inode_operations ext3_file_inode_operations = {
+	.truncate	= ext3_truncate,
+	.setattr	= ext3_setattr,
+#ifdef CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR
+	.setxattr	= generic_setxattr,
+	.getxattr	= generic_getxattr,
+	.listxattr	= ext3_listxattr,
+	.removexattr	= generic_removexattr,
+#endif
+	.permission	= ext3_permission,
+};
+