Re: MM deadlock [was: Re: arca-vm-8...]

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 10 Jan 1999 19:45:36 +0000 (GMT)

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> point where we would otherwise deadlock on the writer semaphore it's much
> better to just allow nested writes. I suspect all filesystems can already
> handle nested writes - they are a lot easier to handle than truly
> concurrent ones.

Suspect makes me kind of nervous. Especially so close to 2.2 and given the
normal results of making a bad file system error.

Alan

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