I'll note that part of the problem is that it doesn't seem to be
trivially reproducible even on Ubuntu Jaunty.  I was having lunch with a
number of Ubuntu kernel developers at the Linux Foundation Collaboration
summit, and I talked to them specifically about this bug --- a number of
them indicated to me that they were using ext4, and deleting kernel
trees, and building new trees all the time, without a problem, and they
were on Jaunty.

That being said, there's clearly a problem here, but exactly what are
all the reproduction conditions haven't been found yet, so not everyone
is able to reliably reproduce the problem.  And so far I'm not hearing
much from the Fedora 11 beta --- but maybe there's something unique that
Ubuntu is enabling by default that makes this bug much more easy to be
tickled on Ubuntu that F11.  Argh....

On my side, I still need to figure out why a Ubuntu Jaunty kernel built
with my custom "no modules" config causes a black screen lockup when
booting on an Ubuntu Intrepid userspace --- or find room to do an
install of Ubuntu Jaunty beta and try to reproduce the problem myself.
Oh, and I have to get my taxes filed too, and expense reports, and lots
of other things related to my day job (which doesn't include ext4; it's
been a long time since anyone has paid me to work on ext4 as my day job
-- it's something I do in my copious spare time in the evenings or when
I have a few spare moments).

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Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824
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