-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Theodore Ts'o wrote: > We might have a break in this bug. For those people who can reliably > reproduce the problem, are you using ecryptfs, possibly extensively? > Roland Drier has reported a potential lockdep report that might explain > why some of us have had extreme problems reproducing the problem; namely > we might not be using ecryptfs. See: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/4/93 > > If so, there is a sample patch which **might*** fix this problem. See: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/5/79 > > Also, if people could try building their kernel with > CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING, that would be interesting to see if we get a > lockdep report. > > If so, it might be that this bug has been around all along, but it's > something about Ubuntu patches that makes it 100,000 times more likely > to trigger. (In practice, it looks like it should only trigger on a > truncate to a size which is not a multiple of the filesystem blocksize, > not on an unlink --- but maybe there was a bug in the Ubuntu backports > that made this possible to trigger on an unlink. This is only a theory, > but it's the first lockdep report I've gotten that could at least > potentially be related to this problem that to date, only Ubuntu users > have been complaining about, even though at this point we've got a huge > number of Fedora 11 users using ext4 w/o any problems.) > > I've been using Ecryptfs only on ~/Private. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJKUXBIAAoJEIltSrFpUGteit8IAI1XZ0Co/2bSnErSa5qid68J VEey/fPv8RRxvWd0QvZBRR9c9K+isjAS24+2A3V+veOh1aBd/C9dGOZ8fD4i5ZqZ 1i9f70ZPQnKxc9o1ER+qZ7X0EGiDXOVjFoHlV5GY8/OaaZ6/0R9ILOp2X+LvrY3s ZZgFDjdKMO4058nI11y/Z00fuLwOlk8i2wr4a0ofkRCEkMWCfOtYOD270unEcJNx CIi88ma0IwMelkjdoN+IqPqOSUbhAW/qCSJOBY5uuYlMXtdeXFFC/gMLdb5q34lk vXbbb38744g4THJC03g2qIuDMPAw+QGl3+kMX+DIVs+oP83Je25kHIGiW2oj1v8= =HMof -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
