Hello! On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 12:51:00PM +0100, Bernhard Sadlowski wrote:
> > Hm. This resembles me something. > > Can you reproduce the same problem if you apply patches from > > ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiserfs-for-2.4/testing/quota-2.4.20/ > > These patches add quota support to reiserfs, but also change some > > new inode-related operation to prevent deadlocks like you are seeing. > The unpatched kernel shows the hangs much earlier, so I assume that the > above patches solve the problem. With the patches the load goes up very > slowly but steady to "100" and I/O does not freeze anymore. vmstat and > iostat still show activity. I assume you don't need any sysrq-t output > now. Ok. That's a good sign. > Will the patches be included in 2.4.21? No, they require quota support tha won't be included into 2.4 because of new quota formats and stuff. I will extract relevant bits from the patch though. I will send you short version without quota once it will be ready. Thank you. Bye, Oleg
