Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Aug 2020 10:56:04 -0400 | From | David Niklas <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: IO lockup on reiserfs FS. |
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On Wed, 5 Aug 2020 12:51:41 -0700 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 9:53 AM <Hgntkwis@vfemail.net> wrote: > > > > It's been over 1 week since I sent this into the reiserfs-devel > > mailing list. I'm escalating this as the kernel docs recommend. > > I'm still willing to help debug and test a fix for this problem. > > The thing is, you're using an ancient 4.14 kernel, and a filesystem > that isn't really maintained any more. You'll find very few people > interested in trying to debug that combination. > > You *might* have more luck with a more modern kernel, but even then > ... reiserfs? > > Linus >
This bug appears to have been fixed some where between 4.14.X and the 5.17.X series. I don't know why the fix wasn't backported, but it doesn't really matter to me as I can run the newer kernel.
Thanks everyone for your help. David
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