Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 07:20:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/20804: deadlocking when using vnode disk file and quotas Message-ID: <200008241420.HAA83768@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/20804; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/20804: deadlocking when using vnode disk file and quotas Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 16:12:44 +0200 In message <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000824100047.31571D-100000@fledge.watson.org>, Robe rt Watson writes: >On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> In message <84319.967125031@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>, Sheldon Hearn writes: >> > >> >> No I haven't even looked at it. The jail stuff doesn't even know >> >> what a lock is, much less touch one, so the jail involvement was >> >> not enough to make me put it on my busy schedule... >> > >> >>From Robert's earlier comments, it sounds more like an MD thing than a >> >jail thing? >> >> The only thing magic about MD is it's access time... > >I guess the magic question for the bug reporter would be, ``if you run >edquota from within a jail on a non-md disk, does the same lock problem >occur''. He may have listed this in the original PR, but I don't recall. It think this is a preexisting bug which jail/chroot + MD exposes. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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