2009/3/25 Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>: >> > So, I think I need to try it on 2.6.29-rc7 again. >> I've looked into this. Obviously, what's happenning is that we delete >> an inode and jbd2_journal_release_jbd_inode() finds inode is just under >> writeout in transaction commit and thus it waits. But it gets never woken >> up and because it has a handle from the transaction, every one eventually >> blocks on waiting for a transaction to finish. >> But I don't really see how that can happen. The code is really >> straightforward and everything happens under j_list_lock... Strange. > BTW: Is the system SMP? No, it is UP system. The bug exists even in 2.6.29, I posted it with a new topic. -- 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