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Message-ID: <20081030174057.GB7926@ajones-laptop.nbttech.com>
Date:	Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:40:57 -0700
From:	Arthur Jones <ajones@...erbed.com>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
CC:	"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	"sct@...hat.com" <sct@...hat.com>,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ext3: slow symlink corruption on umount...

Hi Eric, ...

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 01:36:33PM -0700, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> [...]
> I'll look into it ...

In the cases that fail, I'm seeing bdi_write_congested()
return 2 at the top of write_cache_pages().  In the working
case, bdi_write_congested() returns 0 and the inodes are
found twice in the s_io list in generic_sync_sb_inodes,
first as i_state==7, where they are skipped, then a second
time as i_state==4, where ->writepage() is then called...

Arthur
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