Re: ext3 deadlock?

Paul Mackerras (paulus@samba.org)
Tue, 14 May 2002 12:15:22 +1000 (EST)


Andrew Morton writes:

> It appears that kjournald has submitted a block for writeout
> (via submit_bh() or ll_rw_block()) and the interrupt which
> signifies completion simply hasn't happened.

Ahhh... I had a "hdparm -m16 -d1 -u1 /dev/hda" command in
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. If I take that out it doesn't lock up.

So it is an IDE bug not an ext3 bug. Thanks for the clue.

Paul.
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