On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:28:52 -0600 [email protected] (Jonathan Corbet) wrote:
> Andrew wrote:
> > It's unrelated to the actual value of dirty_thresh: if the machine fills up
> > with dirty (or unstable) NFS pages then eventually new writers will block
> > until that condition clears.
> >
> > 2.4 doesn't have this problem at low levels of dirty data because 2.4
> > VFS/MM doesn't account for NFS pages at all.
>
> Is it really NFS-related? I was trying to back up my 2.6.23-rc8 system
> to an external USB drive the other day when something flaked and the
> drive fell off the bus. That, too, was sufficient to wedge the entire
> system, even though the only thing which needed the dead drive was one
> rsync process. It's kind of a bummer to have to hit the reset button
> after the failure of (what should be) a non-critical piece of hardware.
>
> Not that I have a fix to propose...:)
>
That's a USB bug, surely. What should happen is that the kernel attempts
writeback, gets an IO error and then your data gets lost.
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