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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Arthur Jones <ajones@riverbed.com>,
"linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
sct@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext3: slow symlink corruption on umount...
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:47:20 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200810312047.20306.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4909B8D6.7070206@redhat.com>
On Friday 31 October 2008 00:38, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Theodore Tso wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 03:36:33PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> >> Sorry for the silence, this is a nice bug you've found :)
> >>
> >> I'll look into it ...
> >
> > You may want to take a quick look at this thread:
> >
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/28/413
> >
> > - Ted
>
> I thought about that, but at least at first glance I don't see how the
> gfp mask change would cause this behavior...? At least, I don't think
> we're seeing recursion back into the filesystem... but I'll ponder that.
That's definitely a bug which I'll have to fix for 2.6.28, but
I agree it's unlikely to recurse frequently like this (would only
happen under high memory pressure, and only when writeout from
page reclaim happens).
> (Also, Arthur reports seeing this as long ago as 2.6.9...)
OK, well that would confirm it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-03 3:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20081024183733.GA25797@ajones-laptop.nbttech.com>
2008-10-27 16:54 ` Arthur Jones
2008-10-29 19:54 ` Arthur Jones
2008-10-29 20:36 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-10-29 21:09 ` Theodore Tso
2008-10-30 13:38 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-10-30 13:55 ` Arthur Jones
2008-10-31 9:47 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2008-10-30 17:40 ` Arthur Jones
2008-10-30 18:03 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-10-30 21:34 ` Arthur Jones
2008-10-31 17:24 ` Arthur Jones
2008-10-31 18:37 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-10-30 18:32 ` Arthur Jones
2008-11-03 18:44 ` [PATCH] ext3: wait on all pending commits in ext3_sync_fs Arthur Jones
2008-11-03 19:33 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-03 20:14 ` Arthur Jones
2008-11-03 20:37 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-03 20:58 ` Arthur Jones
2008-11-03 21:13 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-03 21:19 ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-03 21:27 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-03 21:48 ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-03 22:01 ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-03 22:18 ` Arthur Jones
2008-11-03 22:27 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-03 22:55 ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-03 23:01 ` Arthur Jones
2008-11-03 23:12 ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-04 16:26 ` Arthur Jones
2008-11-03 21:48 ` Arthur Jones
2008-11-03 22:47 ` Theodore Tso
2008-12-18 23:17 ` Jan Kara
2008-12-18 23:37 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-12-19 0:27 ` Jan Kara
2008-12-19 1:34 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-12-22 19:15 ` Ric Wheeler
2008-12-22 22:57 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-12-23 0:09 ` Ric Wheeler
2008-12-23 15:56 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-01-12 22:28 ` Jan Kara
2009-01-13 17:21 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-01-13 22:14 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-01-14 4:24 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-14 17:26 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-01-14 17:27 ` Jan Kara
2009-01-29 18:27 ` Mike Snitzer
2009-01-29 20:05 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-11-03 19:59 ` Eric Sandeen
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