From: Arthur Jones Subject: Re: ext3: slow symlink corruption on umount... Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:40:57 -0700 Message-ID: <20081030174057.GB7926@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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: "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]:36607 "EHLO smtp1.riverbed.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753596AbYJ3Rk6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:40:58 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4908C951.2000309@redhat.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Eric, ... On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 01:36:33PM -0700, Eric Sandeen wrote: > [...] > I'll look into it ... In the cases that fail, I'm seeing bdi_write_congested() return 2 at the top of write_cache_pages(). In the working case, bdi_write_congested() returns 0 and the inodes are found twice in the s_io list in generic_sync_sb_inodes, first as i_state==7, where they are skipped, then a second time as i_state==4, where ->writepage() is then called... Arthur