On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 11:10:07AM +0100, Justus Winter wrote: > Previously the mtab content was generated in the open hook. Delay this > until the data is needed. A follow up patch will take advantage of > this to both simplify the logic in mtab_populate and make it more > robust at the same time.
I'm not sure to grasp the relation between this patch and deadlock avoidance. I also don't see what's wrong with generating data at open time. -- Richard Braun