Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: MM deadlock [was: Re: arca-vm-8...] | Date | Sun, 10 Jan 1999 19:45:36 +0000 (GMT) |
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> point where we would otherwise deadlock on the writer semaphore it's much > better to just allow nested writes. I suspect all filesystems can already > handle nested writes - they are a lot easier to handle than truly > concurrent ones.
Suspect makes me kind of nervous. Especially so close to 2.2 and given the normal results of making a bad file system error.
Alan
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