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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] xfs: remove log item from AIL in xfs_qm_dqflush after a shutdown
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:16:33 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120321231633.GY5091@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120316175635.995054821@bombadil.infradead.org>

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 01:55:42PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> If a filesystem has been forced shutdown we are never going to write dquots
> to disk, which means the dquot items will stay in the AIL forever.
> Currently that is not a problem, but a pending chance requires us to
> empty the AIL before shutting down the filesystem, in which case this
> behaviour is lethal.  Make sure to remove the log item from the AIL
> to allow emptying the AIL on shutdown filesystems.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Looks OK.

Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-21 23:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-16 17:55 [PATCH 0/4] implement filesystem freezing by emptying the AIL Christoph Hellwig
2012-03-16 17:55 ` [PATCH 1/4] xfs: remove log item from AIL in xfs_qm_dqflush after a shutdown Christoph Hellwig
2012-03-21 23:16   ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2012-03-16 17:55 ` [PATCH 2/4] xfs: remove log item from AIL in xfs_iflush " Christoph Hellwig
2012-03-21 23:20   ` Dave Chinner
2012-03-24 13:47     ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-03-16 17:55 ` [PATCH 3/4] xfs: allow assigning the tail lsn with the AIL lock held Christoph Hellwig
2012-03-21 17:22   ` Mark Tinguely
2012-03-21 23:29   ` Dave Chinner
2012-03-24 13:48     ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-03-16 17:55 ` [PATCH 4/4] xfs: implement freezing by emptying the AIL Christoph Hellwig
2012-03-21 23:57   ` Dave Chinner
2012-03-24 17:06     ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-03-24 17:08       ` Christoph Hellwig

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