Comment 207 for bug 330824

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Andrew Aylett (andrew-aylett) wrote : Re: [Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:49:01 -0000
JoseStefan <email address hidden> wrote:

> This bug doesn't seem to trigger on ext3 file systems mounted as ext4.
> Can anyone confirm?
>
> Maybe we can pinpoint which of the new ext4 attributes are needed to
> trigger the bug?

I can confirm that I only saw the bug after converting my filesystems,
not before when they were ext3 mounted as ext4. They are all converted
now, and I'm running a stock kernel to avoid the crashes so I'm not
best placed to test, sorry.