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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: stanojr@blackhole.websupport.sk
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Subject: Re: quota deadlock
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stanojr@blackhole.websupport.sk wrote:
>
> heavy write access to partition with quota enabled causes deadlock. if
>  processes try to access the deadlocked partition they                    
>  simply have no response and cannot be killed with SIGKILL. i've been
>  testing with reiserfs and ext2 on 2.6.9 kernel.

There are a bunch of patches in 2.6.10-rc2-mm3 which are designed to fix
quota deadlocks.  Could you please test that (or a later -mm kernel) and
let us know the result?

Thanks.