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SubjectRe: HELP> VFS: dqput: trying to free free dquot
On Tue, 4 May 1999, Jan Kara wrote:

> >
> > My system is redhat 5.2 and i'm using 2.0.37-pre11 kernel. Is this
> > serious problem? What I should do?
> The quota code isn't race-safe :-(. So it seems you triggered some
> of these races. I've made patches for 2.2.6 (hopefully added in 2.2.8?)
> but not for 2.0.x tree. So if nothing else prevents you from using 2.2.x
> kernels I'd recommend you to use it. If you can't I can remake the changes
> for 2.0.x kernels but it seems it will be a lot of work because the quotas
> were rewritten in 2.1.x.

I can't use 2.2.x kernels because then I should update hole system and
that is not good idea when running very busy server :)

But if you can remake the changes for 2.0.x kernels, please do it and send
me the patch, I appreciate that very much :-)

Sincerely,

Jarkko Haapalainen / <jarkkoha@dlc.fi>

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ps. I'm not on the kernel mailing list so please if you answer this
message send your answer directly to me (e-mail: jarkkoha@dlc.fi). Thanks
for your help!




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