From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Damien Wyart Subject: Re: [PATCH block/for-linus] writeback: fix syncing of I_DIRTY_TIME inodes Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 07:33:08 +0200 Message-ID: <20150818053308.GA3629@brouette> References: <20150812101204.GE17933@dhcp-13-216.nay.redhat.com> <20150813004435.GN3902@dastard> <20150813224415.GG4496@mtj.duckdns.org> <20150814111408.GB8710@quack.suse.cz> <20150814151401.GA6906@brouette> <20150817200034.GF21075@mtj.duckdns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jens Axboe , Jan Kara , Eryu Guan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, axboe@fb.com, Jan Kara , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com To: Tejun Heo Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150817200034.GF21075@mtj.duckdns.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org > > I had an unstable system when running latest Linus tree with Tejun's > > patch applied on top. Nothing fishy in the logs after rebooting without > > the patch, but remote access with ssh when patch applied did not work > > (as if /home partition could not be read). This system has / as ext4 and > > other partitions (including /home) as XFS. Trying to login on tty > > instead of X resulted in hang of X. I could reboot with sysrq, but can't > > do further tests at the moment. > > Back to same tree without the patch resulted in normal system. > > So just a heads up the patch doesn't seem OK in its current state. Hi Tejun, > Have you been able to reproduce the failure? That sounds like an > unlikely failure mode for the patch. Unfortunately (as it would be nice to understand what happened), no. I reapplied the patch on top of rc7 and could not reproduce the unstability after several reboots. I will continue running with the patch and report if anything strange appears again... -- Damien _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs