On 24 Oct 2012, Theodore Ts'o stated: > Journal flushes outside of an unmount does > happen as part of online resizing, the FIBMAP ioctl, or when the file > system is frozen. But it didn't sound like Toralf or Nix was using > any of those features. Quite so -- the corrupted filesystems have space reserved for resizing, and one of them has been resized, years ago, but I haven't resized either of them with this kernel, or with any kernel numbered 3.x for that matter. > Toralf, Nix, if you could try applying this patch (at the end of this > message), and let me know how and when the WARN_ON triggers, and if it > does, please send the empty_bug_workaround plus the WARN_ON(1) report. > I know about the case where a file system is mounted and then > immediately unmounted, but we don't think that's the problematic case. > If you see any other cases where WARN_ON is triggering, it would be > really good to know.... I'll give it a test later today, after another backup has finished. Daily backups are normally overkill, but I don't think they are right now. -- NULL && (void) -- 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