From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [CRASH] gdth / __block_prepare_write: zeroing uptodate buffer! / NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:20:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C7BDFE6.313AA43D@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020226184043.GA10420@paradigm.rfc822.org> <3C7BDC57.A835D657@zip.com.au>, <3C7BDC57.A835D657@zip.com.au> <20020226191626.GA11283@paradigm.rfc822.org>
Florian Lohoff wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:04:55AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > __block_prepare_write: zeroing uptodate buffer!
> >
> > Yup. This happens when the disk fills up. Andrea and I were
> > discussing it over the weekend. There's a new patch in the -aa
> > kernels which doesn't quite fix it :(
> >
> > We'll fix it in 2.4.19-pre somehow. It's possible that this problem
> > causes a chnuk of zeroes to be written into the file when you hit
> > ENOSPC, which is rather rude. But your file was truncated anyway.
>
> I dont think the machine had full filesystems at all.
I/O error when reading filesystem metadata would also cause it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-26 19:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-26 18:40 Florian Lohoff
2002-02-26 19:04 ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-26 19:16 ` Florian Lohoff
2002-02-26 19:20 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-02-26 19:32 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-02-27 3:27 ` T. A.
2002-02-27 9:36 ` Florian Lohoff
2002-02-26 19:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-02-26 19:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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