From: Arthur Jones Subject: Re: ext3: slow symlink corruption on umount... Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:55:28 -0700 Message-ID: <20081030135528.GA7926@ajones-laptop.nbttech.com> References: <20081024183733.GA25797@ajones-laptop.nbttech.com> <20081027165423.GB25797@ajones-laptop.nbttech.com> <20081029195403.GA8333@ajones-laptop.nbttech.com> <4908C951.2000309@redhat.com> <20081029210949.GA27274@mit.edu> <4909B8D6.7070206@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: Theodore Tso , "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" , "sct@redhat.com" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" To: Eric Sandeen Return-path: Received: from smtp1.riverbed.com ([206.169.144.12]:5167 "EHLO smtp1.riverbed.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755447AbYJ3Nz3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:55:29 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4909B8D6.7070206@redhat.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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