Hello, On Thu 05-05-11 21:48:34, Niraj Kulkarni wrote: > I have a question, if only one instance of kjournald is active > at any time, and committing transaction is well separated from > others, what is need of taking j_list_lock while operating on > committing transaction's lists? Other processes (e.g. journal_unmap_buffer()) can occasionally manipulate with lists of the committing transaction. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- 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