On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 09:36:06AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 6 May 2008, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > > I've wanted to fix file locks for a while. Here's a first attempt. > > It was done quickly, so I concede that it may well have bugs in it. > > I found (and fixed) one with LTP. > > Hmm. Wouldn't it be nicer to make the lock be a per-inode thing? Or is > there some user that doesn't have the inode info, or does anything that > might cross inode boundaries? The deadlock detection crosses inode boundaries. --b. -- 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
