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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: "Olaf Frączyk" <olaf@cbk.poznan.pl>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
	hch@infradead.org, pavel@suse.cz, t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, dm-devel@redhat.com,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	axboe@kernel.dk, mtk.manpages@googlemail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Add timeout feature
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 06:57:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080709065758.4ac6b3c5@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1215608360.20914.14.camel@venus.local.navi.pl>

On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:59:20 +0200
Olaf Frączyk <olaf@cbk.poznan.pl> wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 08:24 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 09:49:58PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > (e) none of the above.  The kernel compilation will appear to
> > > pause until the filesystem is unfrozen. No other visible effect
> > > should occur. It will get blocked in a write or filesystem
> > > transaction because the fs is frozen.
> > 
> > So if the process which froze the filesystem accidentally tries
> > writing to a log file (or database file containing the backup
> > information, or whatever) that happens to be on the filesystem that
> > is frozen, that process will get blocked and you end up in a
> > deadlock; did I get that right?
> Where do you see the deadlock?
> The process doesn't have a lock on filesystem or something. You can
> always unfreeze from another process.
> 

if it's one of your main filesystems... good luck starting a shell
without writing a single thing to disk... FAIL.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-09 13:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-30 12:24 [PATCH 3/3] Add timeout feature Takashi Sato
2008-07-01  8:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-07-01 10:52   ` [dm-devel] " Alasdair G Kergon
2008-07-03 12:11     ` Takashi Sato
2008-07-03 12:47       ` Alasdair G Kergon
2008-07-03 22:11         ` Dave Chinner
2008-07-04 12:08           ` Takashi Sato
2008-07-03 14:45       ` Eric Sandeen
2008-07-07 11:07   ` Pavel Machek
2008-07-08 23:10     ` Dave Chinner
2008-07-08 23:20       ` Pavel Machek
2008-07-09  0:52         ` Dave Chinner
2008-07-09  1:09           ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-09  4:21             ` Brad Boyer
2008-07-09  6:13             ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-07-09  6:16               ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-07-09  6:22                 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-07-09  6:41                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-09  6:48                     ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-07-09  6:55                       ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-09  7:08                         ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-07-09 20:48                           ` Pavel Machek
2008-07-09  7:13                         ` Dave Chinner
2008-07-09 11:09                           ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-09 11:49                             ` Dave Chinner
2008-07-09 12:24                               ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-09 12:59                                 ` Olaf Frączyk
2008-07-09 13:57                                   ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2008-07-09 13:55                               ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-09 13:58                               ` jim owens
2008-07-09 14:13                                 ` jim owens
     [not found]                                 ` <20080713120602.GC7517@elf.ucw.cz>
2008-07-13 17:15                                   ` jim owens
2008-07-14  6:36                                     ` Pavel Machek
2008-07-14 13:17                                       ` jim owens
2008-07-14 13:12                                 ` Takashi Sato
2008-07-14 14:04                                   ` jim owens
2008-07-09 13:53                           ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-09  6:59                     ` Dave Chinner
2008-07-09  7:13                       ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-07-09  7:33                         ` Dave Chinner
2008-07-09  8:11                           ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-07-09 11:15                             ` Dave Chinner
2008-07-09 20:44           ` Pavel Machek
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-09-08 11:53 Takashi Sato
2008-09-08 17:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-25 21:06   ` Ric Wheeler
2008-09-26  8:52     ` Takashi Sato
2008-09-26 10:58       ` Ric Wheeler
2008-09-29 11:11         ` Takashi Sato
2008-09-26 12:35       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-09-29 14:13       ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-29 14:36         ` Eric Sandeen
2008-09-29 14:37           ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-29 14:45             ` Eric Sandeen
2008-09-29 22:08               ` jim owens
2008-10-05 10:00               ` Pavel Machek
2008-10-09 10:12               ` Takashi Sato
2008-10-09 10:18                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-08-18 12:28 Takashi Sato
2008-08-21 20:20 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-22 18:16   ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-08-24 17:03   ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-08-29  9:39   ` Takashi Sato
2008-07-22  9:36 Takashi Sato
2008-06-24  7:00 Takashi Sato
2008-06-24 22:09 ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-27 11:33   ` Takashi Sato
2008-06-27 18:57     ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-29 23:13       ` Takashi Sato
2008-06-30  0:01         ` Andrew Morton

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