On Thu, 8 Jul 1999 20:44:37 +0200, Pavel Machek
<pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> said:
> Really? Think about deadlocks. Both nbd and loop are _evil_. Mount
> sparse file over loopback, then write to both filessytems in heavy way
> to see why. THIS IS NOT EASY.
It's not all that hard. In 2.2 we should have all of the VM deadlocks
taken care of. The main remaining problem is the single request array,
and having better per-device request management should eliminate most of
the problems there.`
--Stephen
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