[OpenAFS] OpenAFS hangs during cp -r

[Maarten De Boer]

> I said nothing about 2.6...

Well, 2.5 will become 2.6, and I doubt that Linus will remove the
preemptible stuff at that point.

> > > Well, it's either AFS or the preemption patch.  You can choose...
> >
> > That's a bit harsh, isn't it? I'd say that the right choice is the
> > third choice: fix it. Has anybody investigated this matter into more
> > detail? Is Robert Love (preemptible patch maintainer) aware of the
> > problem? Is the problem with OpenAFS or with the preemptible patch?
> > How come a patch that does not affect any of the OpenAFS code breaks
> > OpenAFS? Interesting questions I'd say... And even more because they
> > will have to be answered for the > 2.4 future.
>
> I don't think it's harsh at all.  You're welcome to submit patches to
> fix it.

That's exactly my point. You say it's either AFS or preemptible. I
say that that's harsh, because there is a third choice: fixing it.

Thank you for suggesting that I would be able to write a patch to fix
this, but I doubt that I would be the right person, being totally
unfamiliar with the OpenAFS code and only slightly with the preemptible
code. That's why I asked those questions.

Maarten