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

Theodore Tso
2009-06-07T17:14:18Z

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.

- Ted