From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
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 08:24:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080709122401.GK9957@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080709114958.GV11558@disturbed>
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?
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-09 12:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ 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 [this message]
2008-07-09 12:59 ` Olaf Frączyk
2008-07-09 13:57 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-09 13:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-09 13:58 ` jim owens
2008-07-09 14:13 ` jim owens
2008-07-13 12:06 ` Pavel Machek
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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