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From: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
To: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@gmail.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: forced umount?
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:46:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <460A7FBC.600@cfl.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703270929030.31885@sbz-30.cs.Helsinki.FI>

Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> We never want to _abort_ pending updates only pending reads. So, even with 
> revoke(), we need to be careful which is why we do do_fsync() in 
> generic_revoke_file() to make sure pending updates are flushed before we 
> declare the inode revoked.
> 
> But, I haven't looked at forced unmount that much so there may be other 
> issues I am not aware of.

For the purposes of this thread we _do_ want to abort pending updates to
force the system to give up on a broken block device rather than block a 
bunch of tasks in the D state forever.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-28 14:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-17  4:06 forced umount? Mike Snitzer
2007-03-17  4:27 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-17  5:37   ` Mike Snitzer
2007-03-17 10:53     ` Pekka Enberg
2007-03-26 21:34       ` Phillip Susi
2007-03-27  6:32         ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-03-28 14:46           ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2007-03-17  5:24 ` Gene Heskett
2007-03-18 19:16 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-03-18 20:13   ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-03-18 23:45     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-03-18 20:20   ` Mike Snitzer
2007-03-26 11:21   ` Pozsar Balazs

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