On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 13:50 -0500, Shaya Potter wrote: > 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. > > hmm, ok, thanks for showing me how to reproduce it. It happened to me > once before, but then I made some other changes and wasn't able to > reproduce it.
possibly related, before the BUG, this happens. bug418.sh: write: Stale NFS file handle, don't know why that would happen on ext3, that's because unionfs_file_revalidate is returning it. dont know why that would happen. _______________________________________________ unionfs mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/mailman/listinfo/unionfs
