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Date:      Thu, 11 Mar 2004 07:13:07 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru>
Cc:        cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys mdioctl.h src/sys/dev/md md.c src/sbin/mdconfig mdconfig.8 mdconfig.c 
Message-ID:  <48203.1078985587@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:47:22 %2B0600." <20040311044722.GA93643@regency.nsu.ru> 

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In message <20040311044722.GA93643@regency.nsu.ru>, Alexey Dokuchaev writes:

>>   Log:
>>   Fix a long-standing deadlock issue with vnode backed md(4) devices:
>>   
>Just out of curiosity, is your fix a real fix, or just a clever
>workaround?  Meaning, there are some very in-depth issues involved that
>prevent this problem from being fixed without performance penalty?

That is a matter of taste more than anything else.  A vnode backed md(4)
device is technically a layering violation, so either the syncer or
the md(4) code itself (or both) needs to be aware of the special case.

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