Re: [PATCH 2/2] introduce I_SYNC

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From: Thomas Gleixner

Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] introduce I_SYNC

Date: Tuesday, May 8, 2007 - 12:23 am

On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 00:01 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
quoted text> This patch is actually independent of LogFS.  It fixes a deadlock
> hidden in fs/fs-writeback.c that LogFS was unlucky enough to trigger.
> I strongly suspect NTFS triggered the same deadlock and "solved" it by
> introducing iget5_nowait().  For LogFS, iget5_nowait() would translate
> the deadlock into data corruption, so that is not an option.

Have you talked to NTFS folks about that ?

If it is a general problem, then please seperate the patch from logfs.

	tglx


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[PATCH 0/2] LogFS take two, Jörn, (Mon May 7, 2:59 pm)

[PATCH 1/2] LogFS proper, Jörn, (Mon May 7, 3:00 pm)

[PATCH 2/2] introduce I_SYNC, Jörn, (Mon May 7, 3:01 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/2] LogFS proper, Jörn, (Mon May 7, 3:10 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/2] LogFS proper, Jörn, (Mon May 7, 3:11 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/2] LogFS proper, Thomas Gleixner, (Tue May 8, 12:22 am)

Re: [PATCH 2/2] introduce I_SYNC, Thomas Gleixner, (Tue May 8, 12:23 am)

Re: [PATCH 0/2] LogFS take two, Thomas Gleixner, (Tue May 8, 12:39 am)

Re: [PATCH 0/2] LogFS take two, Jörn, (Tue May 8, 4:41 am)

Re: [PATCH 2/2] introduce I_SYNC, Jörn, (Tue May 8, 5:00 am)

Re: [PATCH 1/2] LogFS proper, Jan Engelhardt, (Tue May 8, 5:46 am)

Re: [PATCH 1/2] LogFS proper, Thomas Gleixner, (Tue May 8, 8:54 am)

Re: [PATCH 1/2] LogFS proper, Evgeniy Polyakov, (Tue May 8, 9:17 am)

Re: [PATCH 1/2] LogFS proper, Jörn, (Tue May 8, 9:32 am)

Re: [PATCH 1/2] LogFS proper, Thomas Gleixner, (Tue May 8, 11:00 am)

Re: [PATCH 1/2] LogFS proper, Pekka Enberg, (Tue May 8, 12:15 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/2] LogFS proper, Jörn, (Tue May 8, 1:25 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/2] LogFS proper, Thomas Gleixner, (Tue May 8, 1:58 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/2] LogFS proper, Jörn, (Tue May 8, 1:58 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/2] LogFS proper, Jörn, (Tue May 8, 2:30 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/2] LogFS proper, Ingo Oeser, (Tue May 8, 3:44 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/2] LogFS proper, Greg KH, (Tue May 8, 3:52 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/2] LogFS proper, Jörn, (Tue May 8, 4:05 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/2] LogFS proper, Jörn, (Tue May 8, 4:10 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/2] LogFS proper, Greg KH, (Tue May 8, 5:01 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/2] LogFS proper, Jörn, (Wed May 9, 3:24 am)

Re: [PATCH 1/2] LogFS proper, Jan Engelhardt, (Wed May 9, 6:06 am)


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