On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 11:18:48PM +0300, Pekka J Enberg wrote: > Aah, I see GFS2 does that too so no deadlocks here. Thanks. Yep, no problem :) > You, however, don't maintain the same level of data consistency when reads > and writes are from other filesystems as they use ->nopage. I'm not sure what you mean here... > Fixing this requires a generic vma walk in every write() and read(), no? > That doesn't seem such an hot idea which brings us back to using ->nopage > for taking the locks (but now the deadlocks are back). Yeah if you look through mmap.c in ocfs2_fill_ctxt_from_buf() we do this... Or am I misunderstanding what you mean? --Mark -- Mark Fasheh Senior Software Developer, Oracle mark.fasheh@xxxxxxxxxx -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
