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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1202161722310.1150-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Date:	Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:26:24 -0500 (EST)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
cc:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>,
	<linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <esandeen@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] Corrupted files after suspend to disk

On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> > FWIW, we've been seeing a number of hard to diagnose failures
> > with suspend to disk for the last few releases in Fedora.
> > Eric Sandeen has been chasing https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=744275
> > for a while, but there's no smoking gun that really explains what's
> > getting into these states. Further complicating things, is that it
> > doesn't seem to be 100% reproducable.
> 
> I wonder if that's reproducible with the filesystems freezing patch I posted
> some time ago (it will need some rebasing to apply to the current mainline or
> 3.2.y).
> 
> I also thing that this problem discovered by Alan Stern may be involved:
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-pm&m=132940331030253&w=4

Probably not, unless the filesystems in question are on a USB drive.  
Still, if anyone wants to test it, there's a patch here:

	http://marc.info/?l=linux-pm&m=132941053601190&w=4

Alan Stern

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