Re: chown problem on filesystems with quotas

Michael A. Rodionov (marod@mail.novosoft.ru)
Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:54:52 +0600


> Jan Kara <jack@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> writes:
>
> > [1 <text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)>]
> > > Have not checked it under 2.2.11 but it seems it does not hang on
2.2.2 and
> > > 2.2.10.
> > > I'm not THAT sure because this server is newly installed and it has
/var
> > > separated.
> > > I have a lot of servers running 2.2.10 (previously 2.2.2) and they
have
> > > quotas and chown works
> > > Ok. And updatedb also works ok.
> > So I might found out what was the problem. It was the deadlock on
> > write_dquot() and it is there for ages. I thought I fixed it but it is
still
> > there only harder to trigger. Try following patch. The problem should go
> > away.
>
> Mmh, should this go into 2.2.14 or is already somewhere in the
> 2.2.1[23] tree ?
>
The first patch is invalid.
Waiting for new one from Jan.

/Michael

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