LOR #193

[Andrea Venturoli]

Kostik Belousov wrote:

>> In a previous (quite old) thread it was in fact suggested I might be 
>> seeing some LOR, but only recently I activated all the debugging stuff.
> The (usual) consequence of the LOR is lock up.

Mhh, yes, that's right. But I stopped having locks during file system 
snapshooting after I upgraded from 5.x to 6.x.



>> What's the risk of running the suggested patch on a (quite critical) 
>> production server?
> It shall be safe unless you run filesystems compiled as modules, that where
> not built against patched kernel (patch changes the kernel binary
> interface).

Ok, that's not my case.
I'll try the patch, but probabily not so soon.



  bye & Thanks
	av.