Re: spurious -ENOSPC on XFS

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sun Jan 18 2009 - 12:32:15 EST


On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:28:58PM -0500, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> The result must not depend on magic timer values. If it does, you end up
> with undebbugable nondeterministic failures.
>
> Why don't you change that 500ms wait to "wait until the flush finishes"?
> That would be correct.

Yes, this probably would better. Could I motivate you to come up with
a patch for that?

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