On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 12:11:23AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > When BSD process accounting is enabled and logs information to a > filesystem which gets frozen, system easily becomes unusable because > each attempt to account process information blocks. Thus e.g. every task > gets blocked in exit. > > It seems better to drop accounting information (which can already happen > when filesystem is running out of space) instead of locking system up. > So we just skip the write if the filesystem is frozen. Applied, with one modification - file_start_write_trylock() added and used instead of sb_start_write_trylock() -- 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