Re: [2.4.22-rc1] ext3/jbd assertion failure transaction.c:1164

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 14:57, Pascal Schmidt wrote:

> > Many thanks --- I was able to reproduce this very easily, and I know of
> > one or two very unusual things that fsx does which might well be the
> > trigger here.  I'll let you know how things go.
> 
> Good, at least it's not a bug that only happens here and is hard to
> reproduce elsewhere.
> 
> I hope this does not happen under normal fs usage. ;)

It's all down to ext3_writepage() using data-journaling rather than
metadata journaling.  

The obvious fix is just to make the journal_dirty_async_data() code
commit its writes as metadata if the inode is marked for
data-journaling, and to set the transaction handle to be synchronous in
that case.  Sounds like a recipe for deadlock if done incorrectly,
though, so I'll give it a more careful look tomorrow.

Cheers,
 Stephen

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