From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make reiserfs BUG on too big transaction
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 20:11:23 -0400
Message-ID: <200505192011.24550.mason@suse.com>
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To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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On Thursday 19 May 2005 05:36, Jan Kara wrote:
>   Hello!
>
>   Attached patch makes reiserfs BUG() when somebody tries to start a
> larger transaction than it's allowed (currently the code just silently
> deadlocks). I think this is a better behaviour. Can you please apply the
> patch?

Ack, looks ok.  In theory, we could return an error instead and force the FS 
into readonly mode, but it's better to catch the offending caller.

-chris