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List:       ocfs2-devel
Subject:    [Ocfs2-devel] What's your opinion on the patch to fix bug 58 for
From:       Joel.Becker () oracle ! com (Joel Becker)
Date:       2004-04-30 11:57:27
Message-ID: 20040430165258.GD26744 () ca-server1 ! us ! oracle ! com
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On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 09:19:19AM +0800, Zhang, Sonic wrote:
> 	In kernel 2.6 VFS routine sys_umount()->...->generic_shutdown_super(), if the \
> inode usage count i_count is not 0, error information is reported. Then, the system \
> will halt in routine kill_bdev()->truncate_inode_pages().  If we don't fix it in \
> OCFS2 driver, we have to change the kernel 2.6 VFS sys_umount code. Is it a good \
> solution?

	The issue is not whether to fix it in the OCFS2 driver.  The
issue is solving the problem without resorting to ugly stuff like
signals.
	Can you provide a complete description of what happens to cause
the problem, so we can look at it?

Joel

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Joel Becker
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