[dm-devel] Re: another multipath deadlock involving fs-writeback

[Alasdair G Kergon]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 05:18:23PM -0500, goggin, edward wrote:
> call to bdget_disk() is the problem, this one called from __dev_status()
> called from table_status().
 
It should probably be setting the recent DM_SKIP_BDGET_FLAG 
on every? dm ioctl.

i.e. call dm_task_no_open_count() in libdevmapper prior to dm_task_run().

Alasdair
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