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Message-Id: <1178609028.3042.275.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 08 May 2007 09:23:48 +0200
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Jörn Engel <joern@...ybastard.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	David Chinner <dgc@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] introduce I_SYNC

On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 00:01 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> This patch is actually independent of LogFS.  It fixes a deadlock
> hidden in fs/fs-writeback.c that LogFS was unlucky enough to trigger.
> I strongly suspect NTFS triggered the same deadlock and "solved" it by
> introducing iget5_nowait().  For LogFS, iget5_nowait() would translate
> the deadlock into data corruption, so that is not an option.

Have you talked to NTFS folks about that ?

If it is a general problem, then please seperate the patch from logfs.

	tglx


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