On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 03:58:58PM +0530, Sandeep Joshi wrote: > I reported a problem with process hanging in ext4 sync on a SSD a few weeks ago > See this thread http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg40369.html > > That was on a SSD with discard option enabled. I was asked to turn > that off which I did and never hit the issue again. > > Today I saw the same problem on an ext4 filesystem mounted on a loop > device. The stack is *identical*. What model SSD are you using? This looks like the we're just waiting for the SSD to acknowledge that the write has been completed. This really smells like a case of a crappy SSD.... - 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