> Not quotaing a quota block allocation would be the logical answer but its
> not trivial and you don't want to propogate tons of "is this a quota block"
> flags around
Why do we lock the quota system within write_dquot()? This non-atomicity
leads to the deadlock in the first place. write()'s can go in parallel
just fine. Or am i misunderstanding the race condition.
-- mingo
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