infinite loop when copying to ext2fs

[Jakub Siroky]

I've just confirmed the same situation on 6.2-RELEASE amd64/GENERIC. I
did not noticed it before because I started using ext2fs extensively
some months ago.

Regards,
Jakub

On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:44:34 +0100
Kris Kennaway <kris at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > Jakub Siroky wrote:
> >> I have two large ext2fs partitions (368 and 313GB) to hold data
> >> shared between several OSes. While there were no problems on
> >> 6-STABLE branch I was quite disappointed after upgrade to
> >> 7-STABLE. Whenever I copy/write to ext2fs partition the system
> >> freezes totally without crashdump. So I set debugging settings to
> >> kernel config (DEBUG,WITNESS,..) and in console I reproduced error
> >> situation ending with full screen of unstoppable running text with
> >> lot of memory addresses and a few recognisable words: 'new block
> >> bit set for ext already' - again with no crashdump. Then I have
> >> formatted 1GB partition with ext2fs and the problem on this small
> >> partition appears only sometimes. 
> > 
> > OK, I am able to reproduce this.
> > 
> > Kris
> > 
> 
> Is anyone able to look at this?  I could not spot a candidate change 
> that has not been merged to 6.x.
> 
> Kris