linux-kernel - Re: spurious -ENOSPC on XFS

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Message-ID: <20090118173144.GA1999@infradead.org>
Date:	Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:31:44 -0500
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>
Cc:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, xfs@....sgi.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: spurious -ENOSPC on XFS

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:28:58PM -0500, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> The result must not depend on magic timer values. If it does, you end up 
> with undebbugable nondeterministic failures.
> 
> Why don't you change that 500ms wait to "wait until the flush finishes"? 
> That would be correct.

Yes, this probably would better.  Could I motivate you to come up with
a patch for that?

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