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From: Wendy Cheng <wcheng@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:15:22 -0500
Subject: [Cluster-devel] Re: [RFC 2/3] GFS2 rename race - lock reordering
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Wendy Cheng wrote:

> Currently GFS2 only obtains its rename global locks if the "source" is 
> a directory. This could result a deadlock if:
>
> - Node 1 does "rename dir1/file-a dir2/file-b"
> - Node 2 does "rename dir2/file-c dir1/file-a"
>
Sorry, typo .. 2nd line should be:

Node 2 does "rename dir2/file-c dir1/file-d"

-- Wendy