From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264268AbTLPBWD (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Dec 2003 20:22:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264273AbTLPBWD (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Dec 2003 20:22:03 -0500 Received: from mtvcafw.SGI.COM ([192.48.171.6]:34633 "EHLO rj.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264268AbTLPBWB (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Dec 2003 20:22:01 -0500 Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 12:21:14 +1100 From: Nathan Scott To: Eric Sandeen , Emilio Gargiulo Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: 2.4.24-pre1 hangs with XFS on LVM filesystem full Message-ID: <20031216012114.GA566@frodo> References: <200312152200.08411.emiliogargiulo@supereva.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200312152200.08411.emiliogargiulo@supereva.it> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 10:00:08PM +0100, Emilio Gargiulo wrote: > Yes, a simple overfill of a XFS filesystem on LVM hangs the kernel. > It is easy to reproduce with dd if=/dev/zero of=file_on_dest_xfs_filesystem > bs=1024k. > ... > I compiled the kernel with gcc 3.2.3. (Slackware 9.1) > I am unable to reproduce the problem if I compile the kernel with gcc 3.3.1. Hmm, that would seem to be an important piece of information - could be a gcc-3.2.3 compiler bug. Since noone here is able to trigger this problem with other compilers too (and under a lot more varied conditions around the ENOSPC boundaries), I suppose a gcc bug is a real possibility here. cheers. -- Nathan