On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 10:49:31AM +0100, Joerg Platte wrote: > register_jprobe(ext2_writepage) = 0 > register_jprobe(requeue_io) = 0 > register_kprobe(submit_bio) = 0 > requeue_io: > inode 114019(sda7/.kde) count 2,2 size 0 pages 1 > 0 2 0 U____ > requeue_io: > inode 114025(sda7/cache-ibm) count 2,1 size 0 pages 1 > 0 2 0 U____ > requeue_io: > inode 114029(sda7/socket-ibm) count 2,3 size 0 pages 1 > 0 2 0 U____ > requeue_io: > inode 114017(sda7/0266584877) count 3,6 size 0 pages 1 > 0 2 0 U____ It helps. Thank you, Joerg! The .kde/cache-ibm/socket-ibm/0266584877 above are directories. It's weird that dirs would have their own mappings in ext2. In particular this bug is triggered because the dir mapping page has PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY set and PG_dirty cleared, staying in an inconsistent state. Fengguang - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html