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> If you want SMP support, you should do something to protect global structures
> by locking. It certainly looks like the lock changes in Lite2 were done
> to provide SMP support. I have no idea how complete it is, but it seems
> worthwhile picking up to me, [ ... ]

It's not nearly complete, but it's (arguably) a step in the right
direction.  And, unless i'm mistaken, the implementation provided in
Lite2 also fixes a few long-standing weird-but-annoying bugs (mount -t
ffs /dev /dev, for instance...)


chris