Re: [bugzilla:219548] the kernel crashes when storing an EXT4 file system in a ZRAM device

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On (24/12/12 04:14), Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > We've got two reports [1] [2] (could be the same person) which
> > suggest that ext4 may change page content while the page is under
> > write().  The particular problem here the case when ext4 is on
> > the zram device.  zram compresses every page written to it, so if
> > the page content can be modified concurrently with zram's compression
> > then we can't really use zram with ext4.
> 
> Do you set BLK_FEAT_STABLE_WRITES on zram?

Yes, zram sets BLK_FEAT_STABLE_WRITES and BLK_FEAT_SYNCHRONOUS.




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