On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 06:28:21PM -0400, HABBINGA,ERIK (HP-Loveland,ex1) wrote:
> Has anyone tried XFS and the 2.4.22-pre7 patch? I'm successfully running a
> CVS drop from June 16, 2003 with the 2.4.22 kernel. Applying the
> 2.4.22-pre7 patch and fixing the subsequent compile time issues fails for
> me. I would not be surprised if I messed up the compile issues, so I would
> like to hear if anyone has had success with XFS and 2.4.22-pre7. I'm
> locking up when remounting the root file system (XFS) from read-only to
> read-write. The mtab~ file is being written, the mount process calls
> sys_write->xfs_write, xfs_write tries to grab a lock, doesn't get it, and
> waits patiently (i.e. forever).
Do to the fixes for O_DIRECT exploits in other filesystems the locking
in generic code has changed quite a bit in 2.4.22-pre. XFS will need
changes to take this into account.
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