Re: arla-block-TR2

Tomas Olsson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.file-systems.arla.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Anders Selander <[email protected]> writes:
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 12:51:50PM +0100, Tomas Olsson wrote:
> > Supported OS:es are Mac OS X 10.4 and Linux 2.6.16 to 2.6.19.
> 
> *lol* So now I only have to wait until my distrubution decide to 
> go from 2.6.15 to 2.6.16...
>
I take it you're not on Ubuntu 6.10.  But yes, I know.  I don't like it any
more than you do.

> Is semaphore-mutex transition really so good?
>
Ask Ingo :)
Or see
  http://lxr.linux.no/source/Documentation/mutex-design.txt

> (error: 'struct inode' has no member named 'i_mutex')
> 
You mean 'had'.  That's one of the reasons I didn't bother with pre-2.6.16.

(Some day I'll even report that Documentation/filesystems/Locking still
calls it i_sem. Recursive grep must be a hard thing to do.)

/t
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