Hi,
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:07:23PM +1000, Andrew Morton wrote:
> "Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote:
> >
> > Yep. There are really only two ways out of this: abandon the assumption
> > that quota ops can't recurse, or prevent them from recursing.
>
> A little kernel thread to own the files and do the IO?
It's only recursion into the allocation code which is the problem, and
with O_SYNC, we'd still get the same loop, only with an added wait
block between two processes. Just preallocating the dquots or
removing the locking seems far better.
Cheers,
Stephen
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