diskio / filesystem related deadlock on SMP 6.0-STABLE machine.

Mike Jakubik mikej at rogers.com
Thu Jan 26 15:50:29 PST 2006


Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 06:44:22PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 06:37:16PM -0500, Mike Jakubik wrote:
>>     
>>>
>>> Well thats good to know, i was planning on upgrading a production box 
>>> from 5 to 6, its SMP and uses QUOTA. How did 6 get released when QUOTA 
>>> was known to cause deadlocks?
>>>       
>
> FYI, you can probably work around this by setting debug.mpsafevfs=0.
> Of course, you'll lose the filesystem performance benefits.
>
> Kris
>   


Ok, thanks. Probably a good idea to put this in the errata for others. 
BTW, where can the TODO list be found on the website? I can't find it 
anymore with the new layout.



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