From: Prashant Shah Subject: Re: freeze_bdev hangs Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 18:40:33 +0530 Message-ID: References: <506F19E6.8030005@redhat.com> <20121008161926.GH9243@quack.suse.cz> <20121009214915.GD27882@quack.suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Eric Sandeen , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Jan Kara Return-path: Received: from mail-ea0-f174.google.com ([209.85.215.174]:59107 "EHLO mail-ea0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753154Ab2LDNKz (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Dec 2012 08:10:55 -0500 Received: by mail-ea0-f174.google.com with SMTP id e13so1587745eaa.19 for ; Tue, 04 Dec 2012 05:10:54 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 3:19 AM, Jan Kara wrote: >> OK. There are several ways how I could imagine you hit ino == 0. Either >> someone is using direct IO or inode is a block device inode... >> Most of the inode 0 writes belonged to journal (verified with the sector number). I think that such journal writes should set the inode to 8 or whatever is reserved for the journal rather than 0. Regards.