On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 03:18:08PM -0500, Mike Snitzer wrote: > Srinivasa's description of the patch just speaks to how freeze_bdev > and thaw_bdev are used by DM but completely skips justification for > switching from mutex to semaphore. Why is it beneficial and/or > necessary to use a semaphore instead of a mutex here? This used to be a semaphore; someone changed it to a mutex; we started getting device-mapper bug reports from people because the usage breaks the stated semantics for a mutex; this patch puts things back while we consider if there's a better way of doing things. Alasdair -- agk@xxxxxxxxxx -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
