From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ibmpc.myhome.or.jp ([210.171.168.39]:3754) by parknet.jp with [XMail 1.21 ESMTP Server] id for from ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:18:47 +0900 Subject: Re: Status of buffered write path (deadlock fixes) References: <45751712.80301@yahoo.com.au> From: OGAWA Hirofumi Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:17:19 +0900 In-Reply-To: <45751712.80301@yahoo.com.au> (Nick Piggin's message of "Tue\, 05 Dec 2006 17\:52\:02 +1100") Message-ID: <878xhewb4g.fsf@duaron.myhome.or.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: Linux Memory Management , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel , Mark Fasheh , Andrew Morton List-ID: Nick Piggin writes: > Finally, filesystems. Only OGAWA Hirofumi and Mark Fasheh have given much > feedback so far. I've tried to grok ext2/3 and think they'll work OK, and > have at least *looked* at all the rest. However in the worst case, there > might be many subtle and different problems :( Filesystem developers need > to review this, please. I don't want to cc every filesystem dev list, but > if anybody thinks it would be helpful to forward this then please do. BTW, there are still some from==to users. fs/affs/file.c:affs_truncate fs/hfs/extent.c:hfs_file_truncate fs/hfsplus/extents.c:hfsplus_file_truncate fs/reiserfs/ioctl.c:reiserfs_unpack I'll see those this weekend. -- OGAWA Hirofumi -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org