On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 11:20:33AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > So, back to the situation with the WARN_ON(). You're running > applications that are doing something that: > > a) is not supported; > b) compromises data integrity guarantees; > c) is not reliably reported; and > d) might be causing hangs > > Right now I'm not particularly inclined to dig into this further; > it's obvious the applications are doing something that is not > supported (by XFS or the generic page cache code), so this is the > first thing you really need to care about getting fixed if you value > your backups... While it's slightly crazy it's also a pretty easy way for users to shoot themselve in their feet. Unlike the generic filesystems with their simplistic i_mutex locking we have a way to assure this works properly in XFS with the shared/exclusive iolock, so I'm willing to look into this further. Ilia, would you be willing to test patches for this? _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
