Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755997AbYHTAYW (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:24:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753664AbYHTAYJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:24:09 -0400 Received: from tau.jukie.net ([216.239.93.128]:59915 "EHLO tau.jukie.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753012AbYHTAYI (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:24:08 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:24:06 -0400 From: Bart Trojanowski To: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Al Viro Subject: Re: vfat BKL/lock_super regression in v2.6.26-rc3-g8f59342 Message-ID: <20080820002406.GD28029@jukie.net> References: <20080819220311.GA28029@jukie.net> <20080820000339.GB28029@jukie.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1233 Lines: 28 * Linus Torvalds [080819 20:12]: > Btw, while you're at it, can you try doing some random writes to that > thing, since the whole sync mount is quite possibly going to find a few > other cases like this. My bisect test script moved files back and forth between the device and my hard disk. If the patch works, I'll modify the script to also do some truncate and overwrite tests, and maybe do a few things in parallel. > IOW, _maybe_ you hit the only case that is ever going to be an issue for > sync mounts, and maybe you didn't. In my eternal quest to never actually > test anything myself, I'm hoping you can try some writing (and > over-writing) of files, since writes to the filesystem is where the whole > "sync" thing is going to show up (both metadata ie file creation and > removal, and "real" data ie normal write/truncate calls). I am glad to help you in your eternal quest. :) -Bart -- WebSig: http://www.jukie.net/~bart/sig/ -- 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/