Re: [PATCH] [2.6] reiserfs: fix locking in reiserfs_remount

Oleg Drokin
2003-08-07T13:37:02Z

Hello!

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 05:24:43PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote:

> >Reiserfs needs BKL for it's journal operations. This is not "more",
> >for some time BKL was taken in the VFS, then whoever removed that,
> >forgot to propagate BKL down to actual fs methods that need the BKL.
> Is it known who removed it?

I think it was Andrew. At least this new emergency remount path without
BKL was introduced by his patch without any extra attribution.

Bye,
Oleg