Re: ext3: slow symlink corruption on umount...

[Eric Sandeen]

Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 03:36:33PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> Sorry for the silence, this is a nice bug you've found :)
>>
>> I'll look into it ...
> 
> You may want to take a quick look at this thread:
> 
>     http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/28/413
> 
> 					- Ted

I thought about that, but at least at first glance I don't see how the
gfp mask change would cause this behavior...?  At least, I don't think
we're seeing recursion back into the filesystem... but I'll ponder that.

(Also, Arthur reports seeing this as long ago as 2.6.9...)

-Eric
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