Patch for quota deadlock

[Frode Nordahl]

On 28. feb. 2006, at 06.23, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 02:56:01PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> Jeff has been too busy to send this patch himself, but it fixed the
>> quota deadlock that I was able to provoke on my machine.  Does it  
>> also
>> solve the issue for others?
>
> I've seen 0 feedback about this so far.  Since a number of people have
> reported that the quota deadlock is the only thing keeping them from
> upgrading from 5.x to 6.x, I expected a more enthusiastic testing
> response than this :-)
>
> Please, those of you who have reported this problem, test the patch
> and see if it works for you.  If there are further problems, we can't
> fix them in time for 6.1 unless we hear about it in the next week or
> so.

I have not been tough enough to even try 6.x on our busy NFS servers  
yet, so I did not know this problem existed. This is what you get for  
not taking the time to test future releases I guess :-/

I will put RELENG_6 with this patch on one of them next week and  
report back ASAP!

Does anyone have a test-case that will provoke the problem at will,  
so I can make some tests in a controlled environment before I put it  
out in the wild?

Frode Nordahl
frode at nordahl.net