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Date:      Sun, 7 May 2006 10:48:32 +0400 (MSD)
From:      Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Tor Egge <tegge@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Chris <chrcoluk@gmail.com>, Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>, stable@FreeBSD.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: quota deadlock on 6.1-RC1
Message-ID:  <20060507104355.K92932@woozle.rinet.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20060506233525.GA52731@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20060504033300.GA39935@xor.obsecurity.org> <44598615.3040400@rogers.com> <20060504044758.GA41047@xor.obsecurity.org> <44599732.1050905@rogers.com> <20060505080543.GD5466@garage.freebsd.pl> <35c231bf0605051049t2761281ar97b9634b8279b1fd@mail.gmail.com> <445B991F.3050600@rogers.com> <6.2.3.4.0.20060505145259.10d8dca0@64.7.153.2> <3aaaa3a0605061238ib77bb38x6f61eb6cc1c1c6c1@mail.gmail.com> <20060506204720.S46997@fledge.watson.org> <20060506233525.GA52731@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Sat, 6 May 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote:

KK> > Also, as an FYI, several quota-related snapshot fixes went into CVS in the 
KK> > last 24-48 hours.  Once they've settled for a few weeks, and assuming they 
KK> > don't have complex dependencies, they will get merged to RELENG_6. 
KK> > Presumably if there is sufficient demand, and they adequately address the 
KK> > reports of deadlocks with quotas+snapshots, they could be merged to 
KK> > RELENG_6_1 as an errata update.
KK> 
KK> The fixes seem to indeed correct all the deadlocks I was seeing.  I
KK> don't have time to produce a 6.x patch now though, but it should be a
KK> simple matter for someone else to do.

FWIW, for me it is much stabler too, at least in normal load patterns.  I'll 
spend a bit of time to stress-test this on our Samba quota-enabled server 
during our long weekend (today-to-Tuesday) to catch possible rare races.

Thanks Tor and others a lot!


Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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