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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()
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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!

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