On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 12:50:45PM +0200, Michael Monnerie wrote: > Am Freitag, 10. August 2012, 08:15:18 schrieb Dave Chinner: > > The freeze/thaw deadlock is not fixed in 3.5 and i think it missed > > 3.6 as well so you're going to be waiting until 3.7 for this to be > > fixed, I suspect.... > > OK, at least you guys have a plan for a fix. I'm happy to get that fixed > soon. Thank you. It got included late in the 3.6-rc1 cycle, so it will be in 3.6. > But when I think about it: Isn't that worth a backport fix? VMware isn't > a seldom used piece of software, and we use NetApp Storage with > snapshots, which is also used a lot worldwide. I can imagine others have > the same problem, or is it just me? It's a problem that has been around for, well, since freeze was first introduced many, many years ago. And the complexity of the fix (20+ patch series, IIRC) makes it a difficult and time consuming fix that requires a lot of testing - it touches the VFS and has changes all through different filesystems, including XFS. I just can't see anyone other than enterprise distro vendors spending that much effort to back port such an intrusive fix.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
