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To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <nick@garage.freebsd.pl>
From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 17:01:01 +0200
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Subject: Re: File system deadlock. GBDE(4) and/or MD(4) related. 
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In message <20030724142814.GX43543@garage.freebsd.pl>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek writ
es:
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>On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 03:57:07PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
>+> I've found deadlock in gbde(4) and/or md(4).
>
>Yes, it is gbde fault:

I don't know what you have found, but I can guarantee you that it is
_not_ gbde that holds references on vnodes.  GBDE doesn't even know
what a vnode is.

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