[Cluster-devel] [PATCH] GFS2: kernel changes to support new gfs2_grow command (Try 3)
Robert Peterson
rpeterso at redhat.com
Fri May 4 21:37:58 UTC 2007
David Teigland wrote:
> So the use of glock_is_held _is_ part of an assertion, not part of an
> algorithm which I was worried about before. We should only ever get to
> this spot with a shared glock, right? (rindex_hold takes it). So a plain
> old assertion that the glock is shared at the beginning would be ok, but
> this particular check doesn't make sense to me.
See previous email.
> Why is this needed now if it wasn't before?
Again, this goes back to the partial rinedx entries left on a page in
the middle of an rindex update through the meta_fs. We don't want
to read in a partial entry, we want to ignore it.
Regards,
Bob Peterson
Red Hat Cluster Suite
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