Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 17:35:56 -0700 From: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Pierre Beyssac <beyssac@enst.fr>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: deadlock in fs/msdosfs/msdosfs_vnops.c:msdosfs_fsync() Message-ID: <20020808003556.GA4424@HAL9000.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20020805203323.M17317-100000@gamplex.bde.org> References: <20020805104153.A37733@bofh.enst.fr> <20020805203323.M17317-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
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Thus spake Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>: > msdosfs_fsync() doesn't honor the MNT_NOWAIT flag. This might explain > your problem. msdosfs (and other filesystems, and even ffs in RELENG_4?) > is missing fixes for endless looping on write errors. This is > unlikely to be the problem here. Sigh. I submitted a four-line patch (kern/37035) for one of the endless looping problems in msdosfs back in April and -CURRENT still has the bug! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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