From: Arthur Jones Subject: Re: ext3: slow symlink corruption on umount... Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:32:24 -0700 Message-ID: <20081030183224.GB8333@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> <20081030174057.GB7926@ajones-laptop.nbttech.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: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081030174057.GB7926@ajones-laptop.nbttech.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org Hi Eric, ... On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:40:57AM -0700, Arthur Jones wrote: > [...] > 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... To clarify, they are not on the list twice, rather a separate call to generic_sync_sb_inodes sees them again as i_state==4... Arthur