quota deadlock on 6.1-RC1

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue May 2 18:05:59 UTC 2006


On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 02:03:13PM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote:
> Dmitriy Kirhlarov wrote:
> >Hi!
> >
> >On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 01:22:26PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >  
> >>>I think it's same problem as in thread "fsck_ufs locked in snaplk".
> >>>Is this problem fixed in fresh 6.1-PRE?
> >>>      
> >>I think we've reproduced the problem, but it probably won't be fixed
> >>before the release.  Sorry, the bug reports came too late in the
> >>release cycle.
> >>    
> >
> >Imho, it's bad idea -- create release with so important bug. It's not
> >coda, unionfs or something else. It's very useful.
> >I think, postpone release for fix this issue -- more fine.
> >  
> 
> Ditto, same thing with the recent nve fixes. Why release known broken 
> code when there are tested patches available? Whats the worst that will 
> happen? It wont work? Thats already the case...

What patches?  If you're talking about the mpsafe quota patches, they
don't address the deadlocks.

Kris
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