From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oleg Drokin Subject: Re: Stress test failure for reiserfs, but ext3 ok on Linux 2.4.20 Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 14:58:04 +0300 Message-ID: <20030115145804.B31603@namesys.com> References: <20030115023559.GA14694@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de> <20030115134315.A31068@namesys.com> <20030115115100.GB16645@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030115115100.GB16645@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Bernhard Sadlowski Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Hello! On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 12:51:00PM +0100, Bernhard Sadlowski wrote: > > Hm. This resembles me something. > > Can you reproduce the same problem if you apply patches from > > ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiserfs-for-2.4/testing/quota-2.4.20/ > > These patches add quota support to reiserfs, but also change some > > new inode-related operation to prevent deadlocks like you are seeing. > The unpatched kernel shows the hangs much earlier, so I assume that the > above patches solve the problem. With the patches the load goes up very > slowly but steady to "100" and I/O does not freeze anymore. vmstat and > iostat still show activity. I assume you don't need any sysrq-t output > now. Ok. That's a good sign. > Will the patches be included in 2.4.21? No, they require quota support tha won't be included into 2.4 because of new quota formats and stuff. I will extract relevant bits from the patch though. I will send you short version without quota once it will be ready. Thank you. Bye, Oleg