Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 17:33:58 +0400
From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [2.6] reiserfs: fix locking in reiserfs_remount
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Hello!

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 05:24:43PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote:

> >Reiserfs needs BKL for it's journal operations. This is not "more",
> >for some time BKL was taken in the VFS, then whoever removed that,
> >forgot to propagate BKL down to actual fs methods that need the BKL.
> Is it known who removed it?

I think it was Andrew. At least this new emergency remount path without
BKL was introduced by his patch without any extra attribution.

Bye,
    Oleg
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