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SubjectRe: [PATCH] jbd: abort instead of waiting for nonexistent transactions
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Hi,

On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 00:51 +0100, Duane Griffin wrote:
> The __log_wait_for_space function sits in a loop checkpointing transactions
> until there is sufficient space free in the journal. However, if there are
> no transactions to be processed (e.g. because the free space calculation is
> wrong due to a corrupted filesystem) it will never progress.
>
> Check for space being required when no transactions are outstanding and
> abort the journal instead of endlessly looping.

I'm not sure this is the right fix --- it seems like we're fixing the
symptoms, not the problem.

The journal free space fields are reset in journal_reset() when we load
the journal, so we can't get this situation of j_free being insufficient
on an idle filesystem unless the main journal start/end pointers are
corrupt.

Surely we'd be better off detecting this in the first place at mount
time, not later on during checkpoint?

Cheers,
Stephen




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