linux-ext4 - Re: possible ext4 race situation freezing linux

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Date:	Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:56:04 -0600
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Andreas Friedrich Berendsen <afberendsen@...il.com>
CC:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: possible ext4 race situation freezing linux

Andreas Friedrich Berendsen wrote:
>  Ts'o,
> 
> Problem still exist. Now, when executing 'fsck.ext4 -C 0 -F -y -v' I
> receive a list of inodes, and at certain point system freezes.

so now it's freezing when ext4 isn't even mounted but simply being
fsck'd?  This may point to a generic storage problem.

> Attached I'm sending the output for SysRq as requested

$ zcat messages.gz | grep -i sysrq
$

The sysrq output didn't seem to make it to that log.

-Eric
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