On Wed, 21 February 2007 13:09:56 +0000, Jörn Engel wrote: > > 3. Seperating out sync notification Ok, that turned out to be a bad idea. Deadlock still exists. Now it is harder to hit and involves: I_SYNC waiting on LogFS write mutex clear_inode waiting on I_SYNC with I_FREEING set find_inode waiting for I_FREEING LogFS write path waiting for find_inode Sorry for the noise. Jörn -- Rules of Optimization: Rule 1: Don't do it. Rule 2 (for experts only): Don't do it yet. -- M.A. Jackson - 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