From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Aug 24 7:20: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82B4237B423 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 07:20:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id HAA83768; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 07:20:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 07:20:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200008241420.HAA83768@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: kern/20804: deadlocking when using vnode disk file and quotas Reply-To: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR kern/20804; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Poul-Henning Kamp To: Robert Watson Cc: Sheldon Hearn , 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 , 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