Running without a journal, I oopsed when I ran out of space, because we called jbd2_journal_force_commit_nested() from ext4_should_retry_alloc() without a journal. This should take care of it, I think. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext4/balloc.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ext4/balloc.c +++ linux-2.6/fs/ext4/balloc.c @@ -609,7 +609,9 @@ int ext4_claim_free_blocks(struct ext4_s */ int ext4_should_retry_alloc(struct super_block *sb, int *retries) { - if (!ext4_has_free_blocks(EXT4_SB(sb), 1) || (*retries)++ > 3) + if (!ext4_has_free_blocks(EXT4_SB(sb), 1) || + (*retries)++ > 3 || + !EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal) return 0; jbd_debug(1, "%s: retrying operation after ENOSPC\n", sb->s_id); Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext4/inode.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ linux-2.6/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -2540,7 +2540,7 @@ retry: ext4_journal_stop(handle); - if (mpd.retval == -ENOSPC) { + if ((mpd.retval == -ENOSPC) && sbi->s_journal) { /* commit the transaction which would * free blocks released in the transaction * and try again -- 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