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

Alan Cox
1999-01-10T18:50:20Z

> point where we would otherwise deadlock on the writer semaphore it's much
> better to just allow nested writes. I suspect all filesystems can already
> handle nested writes - they are a lot easier to handle than truly
> concurrent ones.

Suspect makes me kind of nervous. Especially so close to 2.2 and given the
normal results of making a bad file system error.

Alan