linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] jbd2: Fix a race between checkpointing code and journal_get_write

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Date:	Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:44:47 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] jbd2: Fix a race between checkpointing code and
	journal_get_write_access()

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 03:29:58PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
>   I've been doing some more tests here and there's one more path which emits
> the warning when deleting symlinks (falsely this time). I'll send you the fix
> when I verify that I cannot trigger the warning anymore.

Ah, that would explain why I'm stil seeing the warning when fsstress
runs.  Was it doing it on long symlinks or short symlinks, out of
curiosity?

						- Ted


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