On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 08:13:06PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > Which is fsck-all protection, since then you proceed to do a lot of > blocking operations. Now, lock_super() down in balloc.c _might_ be > enough, but I wouldn't bet on that. There is still leak of proper locking model for inode's metadata, for example we don't lock/unlock buffer_head when check if we've already allocated block or not, so lock_kernel still necessary. -- /Evgeniy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html