Petar Bogdanovic wrote:
> I experience some strange problems with my loopback-on-ext3-setup.
> After creating a plain `zeroed' dummy-file and doing a /dev/loop/0 on
> it, every dd or mke2fs hangs while doing certain write()s. Here are the
> steps just in order to show, how simple the setup is:
...
> P.S: $ uname -a
> Linux pintail 2.6.23-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Oct 27 09:04:14 UTC
> 2007 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz GenuineIntel
> GNU/Linux
Hi Petar,
I saw similar bug report for dm-crypt over loop but reproducible even
on stand-alone loop devices - see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8020
The problem was caused by loop io stalling in balance_dirty_pages.
Per BDI dirty limit patchset (included in 2.6.24-rc) fixed it.
Anyway, you should attach output of process states when system stops
responding (output of "echo t >/proc/sysrq-trigger" ) here to allow
some analysis.
Milan
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