On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 07:26:41PM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Don't know if this is a known issue, but I have btrfs (after my previous > inode_tree fixup patch) failing fsx-linux in Linus's current git tree. > > This makes it a bit hard for me to test my btrfs truncate conversion patch > unfortunately, though it does seem pretty stable so I will probably just > send it out anyway. > > Anyway, just a head's up. Oh, the way I reproduce is to create btrfs > on 1GB rd, run 4 instances of fsx-linux on different files in the root > directory, and run `while true ; do sync ; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches; > done` at the same time.
Just an update, I think I've tracked this down. Our fixup code for when set_page_dirty was called without page_mkwrite wasn't catching every case. I'm hitting other problems because I'm testing on my new performance code, but hopefully this will all be nailed down soon. -chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
