This sounds an awful lot like the same problem I reported with fsck hanging. I believe that Hugh had a candidate patch for that, which was related to dirty tracking limits. It seems that that patch tested, and acked by Peter. All on lkml under: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 -- mkfs stuck in 'D' -apw - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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