Re: Status of buffered write path (deadlock fixes)

OGAWA Hirofumi
2006-12-11T18:17:36Z

Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> writes:

> Finally, filesystems. Only OGAWA Hirofumi and Mark Fasheh have given much
> feedback so far. I've tried to grok ext2/3 and think they'll work OK, and
> have at least *looked* at all the rest. However in the worst case, there
> might be many subtle and different problems :( Filesystem developers need
> to review this, please. I don't want to cc every filesystem dev list, but
> if anybody thinks it would be helpful to forward this then please do.

BTW, there are still some from==to users.

fs/affs/file.c:affs_truncate
fs/hfs/extent.c:hfs_file_truncate
fs/hfsplus/extents.c:hfsplus_file_truncate
fs/reiserfs/ioctl.c:reiserfs_unpack

I'll see those this weekend.
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>