[DRBD-user] issue with 2.6.22+ and 0.7.24

Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg at linbit.com
Fri Sep 14 09:57:37 CEST 2007

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On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:33:01AM +0200, Laurent CARON wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After reading the thread about XFS, drbd 8.0.5 and 2.6.22+ kernels (XFS 
> filesystem locks on mounting with 0.8.0.5), i wonder if the same applies 
> to using 0.7.24 and 2.6.22+.

basically, yes.
so either don't use 0.7 with the kernels showing this behaviour,
or wait for some maintenance release,
or patch it yourself.

> "for housekeeping (meta data update), we had a recursive, synchronous,
> call to generic_make_request in the generic_make_request path.
> with 2.6.22 and later kernels, this will deadlock :->"

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