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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] introduce I_SYNC
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 09:23:48 +0200
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Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
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	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
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On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 00:01 +0200, J=C3=B6rn Engel wrote:
> This patch is actually independent of LogFS.  It fixes a deadlock
> hidden in fs/fs-writeback.c that LogFS was unlucky enough to trigger.
> I strongly suspect NTFS triggered the same deadlock and "solved" it b=
y
> introducing iget5_nowait().  For LogFS, iget5_nowait() would translat=
e
> the deadlock into data corruption, so that is not an option.

Have you talked to NTFS folks about that ?

If it is a general problem, then please seperate the patch from logfs.

	tglx