Re: 2.6.18 ext3 panic.

From: Dave Jones
Date: Mon Oct 09 2006 - 18:52:18 EST


On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 02:59:25PM -0700, Badari Pulavarty wrote:

> journal_dirty_data() would do submit_bh() ONLY if its part of the older
> transaction.
>
> I need to take a closer look to understand the race.
>
> BTW, is this 1k or 2k filesystem ?

(18:41:11:davej@gelk:~)$ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/md0 | grep size
Block size: 1024
Fragment size: 1024
Inode size: 128
(18:41:16:davej@gelk:~)$

> How easy is to reproduce the problem ?

I can reproduce it within a few hours of stressing, but only
on that one box. I've not figured out exactly what's so
special about it yet (though the 1k block thing may be it).
I had been thinking it was a raid0 only thing, as none of
my other boxes have that.

I'm not entirely sure how it got set up that way either.
The Fedora installer being too smart for its own good perhaps.

Dave

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