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Message-ID: <20070930202429.GA30514@lazybastard.org>
Date:	Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:24:29 +0200
From:	Jörn Engel <joern@...fs.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@...dex.ru>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Write-back from inside FS - need suggestions

On Sat, 29 September 2007 13:00:11 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> err, it's basically an open-coded mutex via which one thread can get
> exclusive access to some parts of an inode's internals.  Perhaps it could
> literally be replaced with a mutex.  Exactly what I_LOCK protects has not
> been documented afaik.  That would need to be reverse engineered :(

I believe you actually have some documentation in your tree.  At least
the behaviour after my I_SYNC patch has been documented with that patch.

Jörn

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