> The journal being full is a crucial issue, because if it > isn't full you > can start a new transaction without problems, but when it is > full you need > to flush the journal and wait for all existing users to free > up their handles, > which will never happen if the first process has a > transaction handle and is > blocked waiting for a lock the second process is holding. > > Cheers, Andreas > -- Interesting - is there any way to monitor the journal usage to determine if a given filesystem would benefit from an increased journal size? -poul _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users