XFS SoftAssert when doing hard links in AFS?

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Chris Wing <wingc at engin.umich.edu> writes:

> Hmm. I'll have to look through it more deeply to get a grasp around
> everything that's going on. Do you think the problem is unique to the fact
> that a hard link is involved here? Or could it be something unrelated like
> a race condition in arlad + xfs? (I'm using Linux 2.2 on a very
> fast SMP machine, if that matters-- dual Pentium III 550)

It should be a problem related to the lockfile. I have seen it on my users
and my computer too, so its not related to smp I would guess.

> I haven't checked every single operation in vos, fs, and pts, but I
> haven't seen any problems so far. I don't use vos and pts much, and only
> use fs occasionally too. When I wrote the patch I tried to look over
> the other uses of getarg to make sure that I wasn't breaking any
> assumptions.

Ok.
 
> klog needs 2 things from getarg:

I don't like messing around any more with getarg, but it almost works so it
might have to do for now (with your patch).

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