From: Andres Freund Subject: Re: EXT4 ENOSPC Bug Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 15:58:53 +0100 Message-ID: <200812021559.05103.andres@anarazel.de> References: <200811291418.24672.andres@anarazel.de> <200812012116.08510.andres@anarazel.de> <20081202075712.GA16172@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1255987.1abemzJ8u6"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: LKML , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Theodore Tso , Andreas Dilger Return-path: Received: from mail.anarazel.de ([217.115.131.40]:58055 "EHLO smtp.anarazel.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754529AbYLBO7J (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 09:59:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20081202075712.GA16172@mit.edu> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --nextPart1255987.1abemzJ8u6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi Ted, Hi Andreas, On Tuesday 02 December 2008 08:57:12 Theodore Tso wrote: > So.... could you apply this patch, attached below. You can trigger it > using the attached program, debug-ioctl. If the filesystem is > quiscent, and you've typed sync once or twice, you should get the > following in your printk logs: Ok. The system now runs (without problems) with the patch enabled and I can= =20 get the debug output. 30 Minutes after boot the system still returns to zero dirty blocks and the= =20 free blocks seem to stay in a sensible range. I will let it run for a while and report back if either something interesti= ng=20 happens or the problem reappears and I am seeing no significant amount of d= irty=20 blocks. Andres --nextPart1255987.1abemzJ8u6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkk1TS4ACgkQporPraT14ihobACfcJNYo+LhCCgD89/gehefDsN5 InkAniaB8QjY/XoXcn0efhWOpVCeP1sG =7pCf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1255987.1abemzJ8u6--