[$] Handling filesystem interruptibility David Howells wanted to discuss changing the way filesystem code handles the ability to interrupt or kill operations, in order to fix some longstanding problems with network (and other) filesystems, in a session at the 2024 <a href="https://events.linuxfoundation.org/lsfmmbpf/" rel="nofollow">Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit</a>. As noted in his <a href="https://lwn.net/ml/all/2701318.1706863882%40warthog.procyon.org.uk/" rel="nofollow">session proposal</a>, some filesystems may be expecting to not be interruptible, but are calling code can take locks and mutexes that are interruptible (or killable), which are effectively changing the state of the task incorrectly. He would like to find a solution for that problem. https://lwn.net/Articles/983714/