On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 08:30, Christophe Saout wrote: > Hi, > > > Also, the code has some extra performance tweaks to smooth out > > performance both with and without data=ordered. There are new > > mechanisms to trigger metadata/commit block writeback and to help > > throttle writers. The goal is to reduce the huge bursts of io during a > > commit and during data=ordered writeback. > > It seems you introduced a bug here. I installed the patches yesterday > and found a lockup on my notebook when running lilo (with /boot on the > root reiserfs filesystem). > > A SysRq-T showed that lilo is stuck in fsync: >
Ugh, I use grub so I haven't tried lilo. Could you please send me the full sysrq-t, this is probably something stupid. -chris
