Hi Eric, ... On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 01:36:33PM -0700, Eric Sandeen wrote: > [...] > I'll look into it ... In the cases that fail, I'm seeing bdi_write_congested() 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... Arthur -- 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