From: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, list+2007@smokva.net
Subject: Re: dd/mke2fs on loopback hangs
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:04:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4730D6F3.8030500@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071106131310.GA8628@pintail.smokva.net>
Petar Bogdanovic wrote:
> I experience some strange problems with my loopback-on-ext3-setup.
> After creating a plain `zeroed' dummy-file and doing a /dev/loop/0 on
> it, every dd or mke2fs hangs while doing certain write()s. Here are the
> steps just in order to show, how simple the setup is:
...
> P.S: $ uname -a
> Linux pintail 2.6.23-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Oct 27 09:04:14 UTC
> 2007 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz GenuineIntel
> GNU/Linux
Hi Petar,
I saw similar bug report for dm-crypt over loop but reproducible even
on stand-alone loop devices - see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8020
The problem was caused by loop io stalling in balance_dirty_pages.
Per BDI dirty limit patchset (included in 2.6.24-rc) fixed it.
Anyway, you should attach output of process states when system stops
responding (output of "echo t >/proc/sysrq-trigger" ) here to allow
some analysis.
Milan
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mbroz@redhat.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-06 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-06 13:13 dd/mke2fs on loopback hangs Petar Bogdanovic
2007-11-06 21:04 ` Milan Broz [this message]
2007-11-07 13:28 ` Petar Bogdanovic
2007-11-13 9:36 ` Petar Bogdanovic
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