diff -urN v2.4.1-clean/fs/buffer.c v2.4.1-muckabout/fs/buffer.c
--- v2.4.1-clean/fs/buffer.c	Tue Feb 20 08:40:00 2001
+++ v2.4.1-muckabout/fs/buffer.c	Tue Feb 20 08:42:24 2001
@@ -314,6 +314,28 @@
 	return sync_buffers(dev, 1);
 }
 
+int fsync_dev_lockfs(kdev_t dev)
+{
+	sync_buffers(dev, 0);
+
+	lock_kernel();
+	/* note, the FS might need to start transactions to 
+	** sync the inodes, or the quota, no locking until
+	** after these are done
+	*/
+	sync_inodes(dev);
+	DQUOT_SYNC(dev);
+	sync_supers(dev);
+	/* if inodes or quotas could be dirtied during the
+	** sync_supers_lockfs call, the FS is responsible for getting
+	** them on disk, without deadlocking against the lock
+	*/
+	sync_supers_lockfs(dev) ;
+	unlock_kernel();
+
+	return sync_buffers(dev, 1) ;
+}
+
 asmlinkage long sys_sync(void)
 {
 	fsync_dev(0);
diff -urN v2.4.1-clean/fs/super.c v2.4.1-muckabout/fs/super.c
--- v2.4.1-clean/fs/super.c	Tue Feb 20 08:40:00 2001
+++ v2.4.1-muckabout/fs/super.c	Tue Feb 20 08:42:24 2001
@@ -629,6 +629,46 @@
 	}
 }
 
+/*
+ * Note: don't check the dirty flag before waiting, we want the lock
+ * to happen every time this is called.
+ */
+void sync_supers_lockfs(kdev_t dev)
+{
+	struct super_block * sb;
+
+	for (sb = sb_entry(super_blocks.next);
+	     sb != sb_entry(&super_blocks); 
+	     sb = sb_entry(sb->s_list.next)) {
+		if (!sb->s_dev)
+			continue;
+		if (dev && sb->s_dev != dev)
+			continue;
+		lock_super(sb);
+		if (sb->s_dev && (!dev || dev == sb->s_dev))
+			if (sb->s_op && sb->s_op->write_super_lockfs)
+				sb->s_op->write_super_lockfs(sb);
+		unlock_super(sb);
+	}
+}
+
+void unlockfs(kdev_t dev)
+{
+	struct super_block * sb;
+
+	for (sb = sb_entry(super_blocks.next);
+	     sb != sb_entry(&super_blocks); 
+	     sb = sb_entry(sb->s_list.next)) {
+		if (!sb->s_dev)
+			continue;
+		if (dev && sb->s_dev != dev)
+			continue;
+		if (sb->s_dev && (!dev || dev == sb->s_dev))
+			if (sb->s_op && sb->s_op->unlockfs)
+				sb->s_op->unlockfs(sb);
+	}
+}
+
 /**
  *	get_super	-	get the superblock of a device
  *	@dev: device to get the superblock for
diff -urN v2.4.1-clean/include/linux/fs.h v2.4.1-muckabout/include/linux/fs.h
--- v2.4.1-clean/include/linux/fs.h	Tue Feb 20 08:40:00 2001
+++ v2.4.1-muckabout/include/linux/fs.h	Tue Feb 20 08:43:48 2001
@@ -1085,12 +1085,15 @@
 extern void write_inode_now(struct inode *, int);
 extern void sync_dev(kdev_t);
 extern int fsync_dev(kdev_t);
+extern int fsync_dev_lockfs(kdev_t);
 extern int fsync_inode_buffers(struct inode *);
 extern int osync_inode_buffers(struct inode *);
 extern int inode_has_buffers(struct inode *);
 extern void filemap_fdatasync(struct address_space *);
 extern void filemap_fdatawait(struct address_space *);
 extern void sync_supers(kdev_t);
+extern void sync_supers_lockfs(kdev_t);
+extern void unlockfs(kdev_t);
 extern int bmap(struct inode *, int);
 extern int notify_change(struct dentry *, struct iattr *);
 extern int permission(struct inode *, int);
diff -urN v2.4.1-clean/kernel/ksyms.c v2.4.1-muckabout/kernel/ksyms.c
--- v2.4.1-clean/kernel/ksyms.c	Tue Feb 20 08:40:01 2001
+++ v2.4.1-muckabout/kernel/ksyms.c	Tue Feb 20 08:42:26 2001
@@ -174,6 +174,8 @@
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(invalidate_inode_pages);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(truncate_inode_pages);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(fsync_dev);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(fsync_dev_lockfs);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(unlockfs);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(permission);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_permission);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(inode_setattr);