Re: read only remount not so happy

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 03:56:14PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 09:03:41PM -0700, Jeff Breidenbach wrote:
> > This is starting to go downhill. Everything is still running, but some
> > processes that interact with the filesystem actions are performing
> > slowly.
> > 
> > ===
> > 
> > 
> > [9608310.848311] Assertion failed: atomic_read(&mp->m_active_trans) ==
> > 0, file: /build/buildd/linux-2.6.24/fs/xfs/xfs_vfsops.c, line: 708
> 
> Known problem. Race in the VFS code - fix is due in 2.6.28, I think.
> Details can be found by googling the error message.  Reboot the system.

I haven't seen anyone actually making progress on this in the VFS.  I'll
try to see if I can sort it out myself.