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On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, jlm_devel wrote: > I work on swapd and I found a way to "crash" a filesystem entry with > operations on swaps : > kernel version 2.6.7 > > step to reproduce : > make a swap file into one directory > activate it > rm it > > now all application trying to access the containing directory will > hangs..... including the swapd I write..... You'll find that fixed, I believe, in latest 2.6.7-bk or 2.6.7-mm3: we used to hold i_sem while the swapfile was in use, but are now protecting it differently (S_SWAPFILE): to end reports like yours! Thanks, Hugh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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