Re: [PATCH] kill lookup_vfsmnt()

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 11:22:40AM -0600, Steve Lord wrote:
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Did you try this?

Yes - a simple mount/umount succeded.  I did no further testing as
I'm not using xfs on my test machine currently.

> I think it has a locking problem when mounting the root filesystem, it
> hangs very hard during root mount, probably too many lock kernels in
> some path.
> 
> I like the idea of getting rid of the call, but it looks like it needs
> a little work yet (I will dig into it).

Okay.

        Christoph

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Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.