Re: gnome

["Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm redhat com>]

Andrew Morton writes:
>Linux' userfs appears to require no kernel changes - it's a module.  As
>such, if it does cause deadlocks then that's its own problem!

Not so.  This is a fundamental kernel issue.  I'm not slanging userfs,
I'm saying that userfs CANNOT be written to avoid these deadlocks.
And guess what?  Using a local NFS process has exactly the same
deadlock potential.  This has been discussed to death on linux-kernel.
Please go read the archives.

This does NOT belong on gnome-list, please take it to linux-kernel
if you want to learn more about this.  Thank you.

michaelkjohnson

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