Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 6 Jan 2009 18:05:51 -0500 | | Subject | Re: nfsd stuckage | | From | "J. Bruce Fields" <> | |
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 12:03:56AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 06:02:44PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 02:56:12PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >
> > > I just built current mainline plus the just-sent 266 -mm patches.
> > >
> > > The machine failed to power off when hit with `halt -pfn'. dmesg output:
> >
> > Christoph, can you live with this for now?
>
> nfsd part is well, livable. But the fs/sync.c is buggy as stackable
> filesystems can call vfs_fsync with a NULL pointer due to nfs calling it
> that way, so please drop that hunk.
Whoops, OK, I didn't understand that. I'll drop that hunk, retest, then
submit--should take a few minutes.
--b.
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