Kernel 2.6.30.4 XFS(..?) regression (& with/2.6.31-rc6)

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 06:27:30AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
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> On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote:
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>> On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
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> On this system, I am running loop-aes, could that be the culprit?  On all 
> other systems not using loop-aes with 2.6.30.x, I do not see this issue.

Yes, entirely possible.   All the crypto loop / dm implementation used
to have a tendency to never complete I/O once in a while, although that
didn't happen anymore recently.