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

[Arthur Jones]

Hi Eric, ...

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:40:57AM -0700, Arthur Jones wrote:
> [...]
> 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...

To clarify, they are not on the list twice, rather
a separate call to generic_sync_sb_inodes sees them
again as i_state==4...

Arthur
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