From: Jan Kara Subject: Re: EXT4-fs (dm-1): Couldn't remount RDWR because of unprocessed orphan inode list Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:04:14 +0200 Message-ID: <20110910200414.GA6709@quack.suse.cz> References: <4E66478E.90102@redhat.com> <4E664DFD.80308@redhat.com> <20110908185139.GA2393@quack.suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jan Kara , Eric Sandeen , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, mszeredi@suse.cz, Al Viro To: Christian Kujau Return-path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:42948 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933495Ab1IJUEQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:04:16 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri 09-09-11 18:11:26, Christian Kujau wrote: > On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 at 20:51, Jan Kara wrote: > > There's race where VFS remount code can race with unlink and result will > > be unlinked file in orphan list on read-only filesystem. Christian seems to > > be hitting this race. Miklos Szeredi has patches > > (http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1108.3/00169.html) to > > mostly close this hole but they're waiting for Al to find time to look at > > them / merge them AFAIK. > > While these patches are still pending review, are they "dangerous" to > apply? If not, I'd like to volunteer as a tester :-) As far as I saw them, they should be pretty safe. So feel free to test them. Honza -- Jan Kara SUSE Labs, CR