Re: MM deadlock [was: Re: arca-vm-8...]

Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-01-10T22:33:36Z

Hi,

On Sun, 10 Jan 1999 14:56:18 +0300, Savochkin Andrey Vladimirovich
<saw@msu.ru> said:

> Well, doesn't semaphore recursion mean that the write atomicity
> is no more guaranteed by inode's i_sem semaphore?

Yes. That's OK from one point of view --- there's nothing in the specs
which requires us to make writes atomic. The question is whether any
filesystems rely on it internally in their implementation.

--Stephen