On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 08:23:00AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 03:09:16AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > > As for this patch: we need to > > * replace lock_super/unlock_super() with get_fs_excl()/put_fs_excl() > > in the same places. > > Nope. See the discussion I had with Jens and other about what it > is good for. It's for fs-central ressouces that are performance > critical for FS. FS beeing shut down is per defintion not performance > critical. FS blocking writeback may very well be, though. In any case, the point is that we should separate get_fs_excl() from exclusion there and kill exclusion part for everything except ext4. _Then_ we can deal with fs_excl separately. -- 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
