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From: Fredrik Andersson <nablaman@gmail.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: Ext4 bug with fallocate
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:17:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a125a870910270117qa90debp8d5a9f90ffb8434@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AE67A1B.8060704@redhat.com>

> Not trying to ignore you, but trying to sort out some corruption issues that
> I'm afraid I have to rank higher than a hang for now...

I understand. Good to know someone is thinking about it anyway :-)

>
> From the traces, things are hung up on the i_data_sem; several pdflushes
> want it for read in ext4_get_blocks_wrap, and drbdmakes presumably have it
> downed for write in ext4_ext_truncate.  I'm not immediately seeing the
> deadlock tonight, but then it's getting late...
>
> Is the application that's triggering this something you can share?
>

Sorry, I can't provide source code for these applications.

But drdbmake does what is described above: Preallocates a very big
chunk on disk and then
truncates it to its final length once it's done.

Please let me know if you need more details.

/Fredrik
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-27  8:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <a125a870910180836i66781e1ey8113e7f8569f1fad@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-18 15:47 ` Fwd: Ext4 bug with f Fredrik Andersson
2009-10-18 15:57   ` Fwd: Ext4 bug with fallocate Eric Sandeen
2009-10-19  9:49     ` Fredrik Andersson
2009-10-20 16:49       ` Fredrik Andersson
2009-10-21  0:24         ` Mingming
2009-10-22  7:37           ` Fredrik Andersson
2009-10-26 10:43             ` Fredrik Andersson
2009-10-21  2:20       ` Eric Sandeen
2009-10-21  9:08         ` Fredrik Andersson
2009-10-27  4:42   ` Eric Sandeen
2009-10-27  8:17     ` Fredrik Andersson [this message]
2009-10-27 13:56       ` Eric Sandeen
2009-10-27 15:29         ` Fredrik Andersson
2009-10-27 15:37           ` Eric Sandeen

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