On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:28:59AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > > > Is this problem known? Or is there a fix for 3.0.X available? > From a quick look, processes are waiting for IO so it may be that your > disk is just loaded... Did it start happening after some change? Or do you > experience unexpectedly low performance? All of the processes waiting for I/O are waiting for a directory block. This makes me suspicious that perhaps an interrupt or I/O request got lost. Is this a repeatable failure, and is the stack traces always the same? If so, you might want to try running badblocks on the device and make sure that hardware issues have been ruled out. - Ted -- 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