On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:19:58PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Add an ext3 bug-for-bug compatible analogue for data=ordered mode. In > this mode, we force all delayed allocation blocks involved with the > to-be-commited transaction to be allocated, and then flushed out to > disk before the transaction is commited. > Wouldn't this cause a deadlock ? We want to commit a transaction because we don't have enough journal space (via journal_start) and now that would cause block allocation which would do another journal_start() -aneesh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
