Hi Eric, ... On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:03:49AM -0700, Eric Sandeen wrote: > [...] > Something is definitely racy here; in my simple testcase I get failures > maybe 30-50% of the time... Some more info: in the working case, the inodes are put back on sb->s_dirty at then next ext3_sync_fs() call: __fsync_super -> DQUOT_SYNC -> ext3_sync_fs -> log_wait_commit In the failing case, journal_start_commit returns 0 in ext_sync_fs and the inodes disappear into never-never land... 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