On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 00:01 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote: > This patch is actually independent of LogFS. It fixes a deadlock > hidden in fs/fs-writeback.c that LogFS was unlucky enough to trigger. > I strongly suspect NTFS triggered the same deadlock and "solved" it by > introducing iget5_nowait(). For LogFS, iget5_nowait() would translate > the deadlock into data corruption, so that is not an option. Have you talked to NTFS folks about that ? If it is a general problem, then please seperate the patch from logfs. tglx - 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
