From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262315AbTLVEac (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Dec 2003 23:30:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262328AbTLVEac (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Dec 2003 23:30:32 -0500 Received: from fgwmail7.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.37]:60295 "EHLO fgwmail7.fujitsu.co.jp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262315AbTLVEab (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Dec 2003 23:30:31 -0500 Message-ID: <3FE67362.2070704@labs.fujitsu.com> Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 13:30:26 +0900 From: Tsuchiya Yoshihiro Reply-To: tsuchiya@labs.fujitsu.com Organization: Fujitsu Labs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" CC: linux-kernel Subject: Re: filesystem bug? References: <3FDD7DFD.7020306@labs.fujitsu.com> <1071582242.5462.1.camel@sisko.scot.redhat.com> <3FDF7BE0.205@jpl.nasa.gov> <3FDF95EB.2080903@labs.fujitsu.com> <3FE0E5C6.5040008@labs.fujitsu.com> <1071782986.3666.323.camel@sisko.scot.redhat.com> <3FE62999.90309@labs.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: <3FE62999.90309@labs.fujitsu.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 Tsuchiya Yoshihiro wrote: >>It could possibly be a core VFS bug, but the VFS is in general pretty >>reliable under load. We've had problems under specific edge conditions >>such as races between sync and unmount, but the basic VFS behaviour >>under load generally gets _lots_ of testing, so I'd definitely start by >>looking elsewhere. >> >>I'd also like to see how your 2.4.23 and 2.6.0-test11 testing is going. >>That might give some clues, too. There's a race between clear_inode() >>and read_inode() fixed in those kernels, but that doesn't look relevant >>here; there may be something else changed that's significant, though. >> >> >> >> >> >EXT3 on 2.4.23 and 2.6.0-test11 both failed. I feel when I make the >filesystem >smaller - make the filesystem usage 70% to 80% during the test- , >the problem happens easyer. > > > I tried it with IDE disk and it failed also. It was run on ext2 on 2.4.23. So it's not a SCSI problem. Thanks, Yoshi -- Yoshihiro Tsuchiya