On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 13:43 -0500, Josef Sipek wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 02:05:44PM -0500, Shaya Potter wrote:
> > this patch changes the use of the read/write lock to force serialization
> > on the branch table.
> > 
> > basically, any entry point that can change it (ioctl for adding/changing
> > mode/inc) is taken with write, while every other fs entry point (lookup,
> > read, write....) is taken with read.  basically to force the fs not to
> > be in use when a branching operation is taking place.
> > 
> > thoughts?
> 
> I tried the patch, It failed on the regression tests :)
> 
> A kernel BUG croped up in super.c:132, which happens with the bug418.sh
> test.

ok, I'll try.  there's a bug in the patch as well (that I don't set the
addbranch/delbranch return value to 0 on working)

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