Re: [Bug #13232] ext3/4 with synchronous writes gets wedged by Postfix

Al Viro
2009-06-07T17:17:39Z

On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 01:14:18PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 12:06:22PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report
> > of regressions introduced between 2.6.28 and 2.6.29.
> >
> > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13232
> > Subject : ext3/4 with synchronous writes gets wedged by Postfix
> > Submitter : David Watson <kernel-nospam-yvBcC19sZ6P0OyVTGvYuXB2eb7JE58TQ@public.gmane.org>
> > Date : 2009-05-03 19:46 (36 days old)
>
> Al Viro has the fix for this in the for-next branch of his vfs-2.6 git
> tree, as commit ID 72a43d63: "ext3/4 with synchronous writes gets
> wedged by Postfix". I pinged Al previously about pushing this as a
> regression fix for 2.6.30, but never got a response. At this point we
> might as well wait for it to go into the 2.6.31 merge window, and then
> we can ask for it to go into the 2.6.30.y and 2.6.29.y stable trees.

It's in mainline now, actually. But yes, we need it in -stable as well.