Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755740AbZFGRRr (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jun 2009 13:17:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754690AbZFGRRk (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jun 2009 13:17:40 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:54432 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751680AbZFGRRj (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jun 2009 13:17:39 -0400 Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 18:17:39 +0100 From: Al Viro To: Theodore Tso , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List , David Watson , Jan Kara , bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Bug #13232] ext3/4 with synchronous writes gets wedged by Postfix Message-ID: <20090607171739.GI8633@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20090607171418.GA22756@mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090607171418.GA22756@mit.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1256 Lines: 23 On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 01:14:18PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 12:06:22PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report > > of regressions introduced between 2.6.28 and 2.6.29. > > > > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13232 > > Subject : ext3/4 with synchronous writes gets wedged by Postfix > > Submitter : David Watson > > Date : 2009-05-03 19:46 (36 days old) > > Al Viro has the fix for this in the for-next branch of his vfs-2.6 git > tree, as commit ID 72a43d63: "ext3/4 with synchronous writes gets > wedged by Postfix". I pinged Al previously about pushing this as a > regression fix for 2.6.30, but never got a response. At this point we > might as well wait for it to go into the 2.6.31 merge window, and then > we can ask for it to go into the 2.6.30.y and 2.6.29.y stable trees. It's in mainline now, actually. But yes, we need it in -stable as well. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/