Re: [dm-devel] DM's filesystem lookup in dm_get_dev_t() [was: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the device-mapper tree with Linus' tree]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 09:06:04PM +, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > I have not read the background about whatever the new problem is - I'm > jumping in cold seeing this message - but from the very beginning of > device-mapper we have strongly recommended that userspace supplies the > block device

Re: [dm-devel] DM's filesystem lookup in dm_get_dev_t() [was: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the device-mapper tree with Linus' tree]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 06:24:09PM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > However, lookup_bdev() now always recurses into the filesystem, causing > multipath to stall in an all-paths-down scenario. I have not read the background about whatever the new problem is - I'm jumping in cold seeing this messag