On Fri, 04 May 2007 10:18:12 +0400 Alex Tomas <[email protected]> wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > Yes, there can be issues with needing to allocate journal space within the > > context of a commit. But > > no-no, this isn't required. we only need to mark pages/blocks within > transaction, otherwise race is possible when we allocate blocks in transaction, > then transacton starts to commit, then we mark pages/blocks to be flushed > before commit. I don't understand. Can you please describe the race in more detail? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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