@Tim: I would be delighted if commit e7c9e3e9 fixes this bug. However, this fix was added after 2.6.29 was released (it was pushed to Linus between during the 2.6.29..2.6.29-rc1 merge window), and Ubuntu users have reported that using the 2.6.29 stock kernel was enough to avoid the rm -rf hang problem --- and 2.6.29 would not have had this commit. That being said, (a) I would encourage Ubuntu to include it in a future sauce patch, and (b) I would encourage users to try out the test kernels that you pointed out.
As far as stable patches to 2.6.28, I do have a stack of patches that apply on top of 2.6.28.10. It contains all of the patches that I was planning on pushing to sta...@kernel.org, but I ran out of time testing them before they released the final 2.6.28.x release. (This is where the problem of no one paying me to work on ext4 rears its ugly head; I only get to do this stuff late at night after I'm done with my day job.) In any case, this set was originally based on 2.6.28.8, and I just rebased them on top of 2.6.28.10. I'm doing some quick QA testing of that branch now, but I expect it to be sane. You can find it on my ext4-tree git tree on kernel.org, with the branch name for-stable-2.6.28. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
