Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755618AbXEHHVI (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 03:21:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755107AbXEHHVG (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 03:21:06 -0400 Received: from www.osadl.org ([213.239.205.134]:43528 "EHLO mail.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754910AbXEHHVD (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 03:21:03 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] introduce I_SYNC From: Thomas Gleixner Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Kleikamp , David Chinner In-Reply-To: <20070507220142.GC15054@lazybastard.org> References: <20070507215913.GA15054@lazybastard.org> <20070507220142.GC15054@lazybastard.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 09:23:48 +0200 Message-Id: <1178609028.3042.275.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 772 Lines: 19 On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 00:01 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote: > 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/