From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 05:32:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 05:32:10 -0400 Received: from hermes.mixx.net ([212.84.196.2]:2323 "HELO hermes.mixx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 05:32:01 -0400 Message-ID: <39F94B8F.C2293ADD@innominate.de> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:31:59 +0200 From: Juri Haberland X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-NFS-RAID i686) X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Quota fixes and a few questions In-Reply-To: <20000927145620.B8484@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <20001007003134.B4732@redhat.com> <20001019190354.A15755@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <20001020154204.A1863@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote: > > Hi, > > On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 07:03:54PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > > > > I stumbled into another problem: > > > When using ext3 with quotas the kjournald process stops responding and > > > stays in DW state when the filesystem gets under heavy load. It is easy > > > to reproduce: > > > Just extract two or three larger tar.gz files at the same time to a ext3 > > > filesystem with activated quotas... > > Which ext3 version, exactly? 0.0.2f had quota problems because ext3 > wasn't doing quota writethrough, so that inode cleaning could force > out random dirty quotas at any point. 0.0.3b should fix that. If it > doesn't, I'll try to reproduce it here. Hi Stephen, unfortunately 0.0.3b has the same problem. I tried it with a stock 2.2.17 kernel + NFS patches + ext3-0.0.3b and the quota rpm you included. Extracting two larger tar.gz files hits the deadlock reliably. Juri -- juri.haberland@innominate.de system engineer innominate AG clustering & security networking people phone: +49-30-308806-45 fax: -77 http://innominate.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/