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

David Watson
2009-05-19T17:17:13Z

On Mon 18 May 2009, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 10:06:04PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > 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 (14 days old)
>
> This turned out to be caused by change in the VFS, as documented in
> the bug report. Al Viro has a patch, which I've reviewed.
>
> David, would you be able to try testing Al's proposed patch, since you
> have an easy reproduction case? Thanks,

Yes, it fixes the problem for me on 2.6.30-rc6-git3 and 2.6.29.4-rc1.