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Date:      Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:15:04 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: filesystem suspension. 
Message-ID:  <23181.1110788104@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 14 Mar 2005 03:00:22 EST." <20050314024439.G20708@mail.chesapeake.net> 

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In message <20050314024439.G20708@mail.chesapeake.net>, Jeff Roberson writes:

>Comments?  Other proposals?  I'd like to get this sorted out for 6.0.  I
>may come up with some interim solution for RELENG_5 because the vrele
>problem has caused deadlocks there.

I agree that the vn_start_write() thing is not a Good Thing and it would
certainly be desirable to get the entire snapshot thing into UFS/FFS
where it belongs.

Without digging through the entire issue, I would tend to lean towards
the "catch them in the vop_*() which write" model on general principles.

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