[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 0/5] OCFS2 quota fixes

Jan Kara jack at suse.cz
Wed Jan 14 03:24:27 PST 2009


On Wed 14-01-09 09:51:04, tristan.ye wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 12:19 +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On Tue 13-01-09 14:01:04, tristan.ye wrote:
> > > Jan Kara wrote:
> > >> the following series of patches fixes some issues with OCFS2 quotas.
> > >> The first patch modifies VFS quota locking, the next patch uses the
> > >> fact to simplify OCFS2 quota locking and solves a few deadlock issues.
> > >> The third and the fourth patches fix another possible deadlocks in OCFS2
> > >> quota code and the last patch is a minor cleanup.
> > >>   
> > > Hi Jan,
> > >
> > > Would you like to show me the kernel tree/branch where your patches're 
> > > going to be applied?
> >   I've generated the patches against a master branch of Mark's git as of
> > yesterday. But they aren't very intrusive so I guess they should apply also
> > to other branches just fine.
> > 
> > > Btw, I'm also wondering if your latest patches which resolves some deadlock 
> > > issues can also be applicable for bug 1043&1067(deadlock on inode removal) 
> > > on bugzilla:
> > > http://oss.oracle.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1043
> >   Yes, they're exactly meant to solve these issues. I'm not able to trigger
> > the deadlock with these patches anymore. I was to tired to update the
> > bugzilla yesterday evening, I wanted to do it when Mark takes the patches.
> > 
> > > At last, It will be greatly appreciated if you can offer me your newly 
> > > released quota-tools for OCFS2. Just simply attach the src tarball in 
> > > replying mail is OK, or let me know the URL where your quota-tools for 
> > > OCFS2 released:-)
> >   You can download the source tarball from quota-tools Sourceforge pages:
> > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=18136&package_id=13522
> 
> The quota-tools above was not ocfs2-specific?  it's generic for both
> ext3 and ocfs2? right?
  Yes. I've merged changes needed for OCFS2 to general quota tools.

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR



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