Re: the shell will make the xfs fs locked

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 08:40:40PM -0500, Steve Lord wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 20:27, tom wang wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Hope you will be soon fix this problem.
> > because we are now testing xfs filesystem and 
> > decide wether use xfs as the file server in our 
> > product.
> 
> The particular scenario you are testing created 64K
> extents in a file before it died here. What you are
> doing here does not bear a lot of resemblance to
> any reasonable application I can think of.
> 
> As Eric said, this is not a simple thing to fix, and
> probably not something which will get fixed completely
> for a while.

It still looks like a kind of security/DoS problem. Is there a simple
way to check for the condition and -EINVAL or EIO in this case at least ? 

-Andi