On Thu, 31 May 2007 16:25:35 +0200 Jörn Engel <joern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2007 10:15:35 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > If we're going to do this then please let's get some exhaustive commentary > > in there so that others have a chance of understanding these flags without > > having to do the amount of reverse-engineering which you've been put through. > > Done. Found and fixed some bugs in the process. By now I feal > reasonable certain that the patch fixes more than it breaks. > > > -- > Good warriors cause others to come to them and do not go to others. > -- Sun Tzu > > Introduce I_SYNC. > > I_LOCK was used for several unrelated purposes, which caused deadlock > situations in certain filesystems as a side effect. One of the purposes > now uses the new I_SYNC bit. Do we know what those deadlocks were? It's a bit of a mystery patch otherwise. Put yourself in the position of random-distro-engineer wondering "should I backport this?". > Also document the various bits and change their order from historical to > logical. What a nice comment you added ;) - 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
