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Message-Id: <200810312047.20306.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:47:20 +1100 From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au> To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com> Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Arthur Jones <ajones@...erbed.com>, "linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>, sct@...hat.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: ext3: slow symlink corruption on umount... 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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