HI all, We found a problem when umount an ext4 partition, if at the same time, disk fails, the umount process will stay at uninterrupt sleep status and flush thread will be blocked. As I know, when doing umount, the filesystem will sync all changes in memory back to disk through SYNC IO, if the disk fails, the io request can not finish. My question is: Could the sync operation notice the IO errors on disk and cancel itself. So the flush thread will not be blocked and umount process will exit with an error code. This may also affect the process of write back, so I add fengguang and viro. Thanks very much, Yang -- 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
