On Apr 22, 2002 06:56 +0200, Ph. Marek wrote: > On every mount of ext3 (and I suppose all journaling filesystems which use > jbd, although I didn't test this) a new kjournald is created. All kjournald > share the same file-information. > > Before this patch it would accumulativly fetch open files from the calling > process (normally mount); I verified this via (in bash) > exec 30< /etc/services > mount <partition> /mnt/tmp > ps -aux | grep kjournald > ls -la <pid of any kjournald> > gives, among 0, 1 and 2 > 30 -> /etc/services > > This is really awful as you can't umount devfs (normally /dev/console is > opened as from the start-scripts) and so / can't be umounted. > > After applying this patch the open files were gone. It looks OK to me, except that the patch is reversed. > diff -ru linux/fs/jbd/journal.c linux.ori/fs/jbd/journal.c > --- linux/fs/jbd/journal.c Mon Apr 22 06:29:16 2002 > +++ linux.ori/fs/jbd/journal.c Mon Apr 22 06:28:54 2002 > @@ -204,7 +204,6 @@ > > lock_kernel(); > daemonize(); > - exit_files(current); > spin_lock_irq(¤t->sigmask_lock); > sigfillset(¤t->blocked); > recalc_sigpending(current); Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
