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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:34:00 -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 Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:03:49AM -0700, Eric Sandeen wrote: > [...] > Something is definitely racy here; in my simple testcase I get failures > maybe 30-50% of the time... Some more info: in the working case, the inodes are put back on sb->s_dirty at then next ext3_sync_fs() call: __fsync_super -> DQUOT_SYNC -> ext3_sync_fs -> log_wait_commit In the failing case, journal_start_commit returns 0 in ext_sync_fs and the inodes disappear into never-never land... Arthur -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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