[BULK] - Re: unexpected dirty buffer

Mike Fedyk mfedyk at matchmail.com
Fri Mar 12 18:20:34 UTC 2004


Nicolas Kowalski wrote:
> Nicolas Kowalski <Nicolas.Kowalski at imag.fr> writes:
> 
> 
>>"Phil White" <ext3 at philwhite.org> writes:
>>
>>
>>>Interesting...
>>
>>Indeed.
>>
>>
>>
>>>You might try remounting /var with data=ordered and see if the problem
>>>goes away.  I'm guessing it will.
>>
>>Ok, I will switch this server back to default journalling, and check
>>if these errors disappear after that.
> 
> 
> The server is up since 3 days, with the /var partition mounted with
> default journalling mode, and I have no errors.
> 
> I will try to reproduce these errors on a non-production server now.

Beautiful.

It might be good if you put a stack_dump() call just after the printk() 
call in the ext3 source.

Mike





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