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Tue Nov 20 16:43:21 MST 2007

the core problem was that reiserfs tried to do *atomic* operations
on non-aligned words.  This isn't supported by the hardware on
S/390 (normal non-aligned accesses just work).

I don't really see how this can be fixed in a trap handler; how
would the handler guarantee atomicity?

Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best Regards

Ulrich Weigand

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