Re: XFS bug? (was: Red Hat Linux 9 XFS DVD Released)

[Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 13:20, Stefan Smietanowski wrote:
> Steve Lord wrote:
> > If you have ext3 filesystems active on the same box then a bug in
> > ext3 can actually prevent kernel threads from flushing anything else
> > to disk. This is fixed in the latest 2.4.21-pre kernel, but not a
> > lot of other places. If folks are running with ext3 in the mix this
> > may be the cause of the problem.
> > 
> > Steve
> > 
> 
> This bug appears also on pure XFS systems. I even hacked XFS to always 
> mount the filesystem sync and it still didn't help.
> 
> // Stefan

OK, good to know

Thanks

  Steve