Re: EXT3 and umount hangs

From: Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Date: Tue Jun 06 2000 - 08:00:26 EST


Hi,

On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 02:19:04AM -0400, tugrul@brainlink.com wrote:

> I've been using ext3 happily on a bunch of machines (primarily 0.0.2c
> on 2.2.13), and its been really stable. But today I tried installing it on a
> 20GB WD205AA, and it appears that any attempt to umount some of the ext3 file
> systems after one reboot after installing ext3 hangs.

I'm putting together ext3-0.0.2e which addresses a couple of possible
problems. The main one is that it was possible for a stray timer to be
left after an ext3 unmount if there was a commit pending when the umount
request came in --- could you try the patch below?

Cheers,
 Stephen



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