Re: Status of buffered write path (deadlock fixes)

From: OGAWA Hirofumi
Date: Mon Dec 11 2006 - 13:17:54 EST


Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Finally, filesystems. Only OGAWA Hirofumi and Mark Fasheh have given much
> feedback so far. I've tried to grok ext2/3 and think they'll work OK, and
> have at least *looked* at all the rest. However in the worst case, there
> might be many subtle and different problems :( Filesystem developers need
> to review this, please. I don't want to cc every filesystem dev list, but
> if anybody thinks it would be helpful to forward this then please do.

BTW, there are still some from==to users.

fs/affs/file.c:affs_truncate
fs/hfs/extent.c:hfs_file_truncate
fs/hfsplus/extents.c:hfsplus_file_truncate
fs/reiserfs/ioctl.c:reiserfs_unpack

I'll see those this weekend.
--
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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