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Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 06:18:09 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> To: Takashi Sato <t-sato@...jp.nec.com> Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@...hat.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, dm-devel@...hat.com, viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, xfs@....sgi.com, axboe@...nel.dk, mtk.manpages@...glemail.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Add timeout feature On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 07:12:17PM +0900, Takashi Sato wrote: > I think we need the timeout for the case someone dirties so much data > with mmap, hence the freeze process is swapped out and cannot unfreeze. That is not supposed to happen. That's why write blocks early on a frozen filesystem (the shared mmap write path is currently missing the check, but that's a rather small patch) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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