-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 All, I believe that I can pretty reliably reproduce the BUG mentioned in the attached dmesg output. (This doesn't mean that you can, but I'll detail what I've done here.) [This BUG is the same one that I reported last night.] 1) Create a 2 GB dynamically expanding disk. 2) Attach it to a VirtualBox machine. 3) Start the Kubuntu install process. 4) Wait until the virtual disk grows to around ~850MB. (This happens when the install process is in the "installing packages" phase.) 5) Notice that that progress bar hasn't moved in a little while. 6) Record the BUG info from dmesg. 7) Wait around a little while more until the Kubuntu install mentions that it has encountered an error. 8) Reboot your physical machine to kill the VirtualBox instance that now won't shut down, but isn't actually using any CPU time. [Using xkill on this instance results in the zombie VirtualBox process that's stuck in IO-wait that I reported last night.] Note that dd'ing 1GB of data to a file on disk (from /dev/zero or /dev/urandom) does not cause an error, so this doesn't seem to be a disk fullness thing. More information about my machine: I once mounted the filesystem in question with the space_cache option. All free space numbers here are from *before* I dd'd 1GB of data onto disk. $ btrfs fi df / Data: total=71.23GB, used=68.16GB System, DUP: total=8.00MB, used=24.00KB System: total=4.00MB, used=0.00 Metadata, DUP: total=4.75GB, used=2.26GB $ df -h / Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/campstovevg-root 81G 73G 3.4G 96% / $ mount | grep btrfs /dev/mapper/campstovevg-root on / type btrfs (rw,relatime,ssd) $ uname -a Linux campstove 2.6.36+ #5 SMP PREEMPT Mon Dec 20 09:28:14 PST 2010 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU L2400 @ 1.66GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux ~/btrfs-unstable $ git log -n1 | head -n3 commit 83a50de97fe96aca82389e061862ed760ece2283 Author: Chris Mason Date: Mon Dec 13 15:06:46 2010 -0500 ~/btrfs-progs-unstable $ git log -n1 | head -n3 commit 1b444cd2e6ab8dcafdd47dbaeaae369dd1517c17 Author: Chris Mason Date: Wed Oct 6 09:53:38 2010 -0400 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNG610AAoJEIsblWe5kJ+jNP0IAIUfHtBts4L5Ym5xGrBBOR/7 ujBNVTQlWp/8jkEQOoHa8zrrSdnA9i4ijwOFHZQ3t5zvMYhw5PmtIVuMVEjFN0kx ItuB0ClCOT+NA8rlwpWrrMWUlHxD+I8fH4QVEP2DZ8n8fJ9jj3ULZTBRBhBcvpeA Yr5RoxBRN9jd1PZkx4RQ/mk0mv3h0Qv+BTese7EvsEbzeOFVYA94g6SQnY+qtVeH b374E85R6cQYmlYQqVlrIvTj3NivUIG6js5Bs9oKwv/jN2BRK/1To5U26OwNWV/S kbQn6fB6StTnJjteWZe8wRiUtWs7WHVAMKjqDd500+RScgsmGTWgjC3MySGnNlY= =J5zb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----