Re: quota deadlock

[Andrew Morton]

stanojr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> heavy write access to partition with quota enabled causes deadlock. if
>  processes try to access the deadlocked partition they                    
>  simply have no response and cannot be killed with SIGKILL. i've been
>  testing with reiserfs and ext2 on 2.6.9 kernel.

There are a bunch of patches in 2.6.10-rc2-mm3 which are designed to fix
quota deadlocks.  Could you please test that (or a later -mm kernel) and
let us know the result?

Thanks.
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