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  1. Bug #330824
  2. Comment #45

Comment 45 for bug 330824

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Carey Underwood (cwillu) wrote : Re: [Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

> Yes, my feeling has always been that this is an unlink (or generically,
> "rm") race as I only saw it when two processes were processing file
> removals (with one being "rm -rf") in two different directories.
>
> Now what might be of relevance is that the two trees would have had
> shared a high percentage of hard links.  Maybe it's a race on deleting a
> hard linked file?

I can reproduce with a large number of files in a single directory.