Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Oct 1998 15:45:08 +0200 (CEST) | From | MOLNAR Ingo <> | Subject | Re: Quota lockups |
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On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
> Not quotaing a quota block allocation would be the logical answer but its > not trivial and you don't want to propogate tons of "is this a quota block" > flags around
Why do we lock the quota system within write_dquot()? This non-atomicity leads to the deadlock in the first place. write()'s can go in parallel just fine. Or am i misunderstanding the race condition.
-- mingo
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