Re: 2.6.20 kernel hang with USB drive and vfat doing ftruncate

[Robert Hancock]

Kumar Gala wrote:
> I'm seeing an issue with a stock 2.6.20 kernel running on an embedded 
> PPC.  I've got a usb flash drive plugged in and the filesystem on the 
> drive is vfat.  Running with 64M and no swap.
>
> If I execute a series of large (100M+) ftruncate() on the disk the 
> kernel will hang and never return.  It seems to be stuck in the idle 
> loop().

On FAT filesystems this forces the entire file contents of that size to 
be written out with zeros. Are you sure the kernel just isn't busy 
writing out all that data to the disk?

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