Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:55:28 -0700
From: Arthur Jones <ajones@riverbed.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
CC: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
       "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
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       "akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ext3: slow symlink corruption on umount...
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Hi Eric, ...

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 06:38:30AM -0700, 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.

Back when I thought this was a 2.6.9 bug, I tried
that patch.  There was no change in behavior...

Arthur
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