Re: ext3: slow symlink corruption on umount...

[Arthur Jones]

Hi Eric, ...

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 01:36:33PM -0700, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> [...]
> I'll look into it ...

In the cases that fail, I'm seeing bdi_write_congested()
return 2 at the top of write_cache_pages().  In the working
case, bdi_write_congested() returns 0 and the inodes are
found twice in the s_io list in generic_sync_sb_inodes,
first as i_state==7, where they are skipped, then a second
time as i_state==4, where ->writepage() is then called...

Arthur
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