From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754296AbZESRRR (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 May 2009 13:17:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752614AbZESRRL (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 May 2009 13:17:11 -0400 Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([77.75.108.10]:33232 "EHLO mail.ukfsn.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750820AbZESRRL (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 May 2009 13:17:11 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 18:17:13 +0100 From: David Watson To: Theodore Tso , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List Subject: Re: [Bug #13232] ext3/4 with synchronous writes gets wedged by Postfix Message-ID: <20090519171713.GA3354@dbwatson.ukfsn.org> References: <20090518132517.GL32019@mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090518132517.GL32019@mit.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > > 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.