On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:39:32 +0100 Alexey Fisher <bug-track@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I use board with ICH10R south bridge, AHCI mode. > > > > In my case it was happening _only_ with barriers enabled (like ext3 mounted with > > "barrier=1") or with XFS (that enables barriers by default). > > > > Does it survives an untar with barriers? > > ext4 have barriers enabled by default, but it will disable it if hdd is > not capable to do it. So it will just return: > JBD: barrier-based sync failed on dm-1:8 - disabling barriers HD in question _CAN_ do barriers. You are using device mapper, maybe it's that additional layer that causes barriers to be disabled. Try with a "raw" partition and see what happens. -- Paolo Ornati Linux 2.6.29-rc6-00305-g2450cf5 on x86_64 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html