On 09/21/2007 05:39 AM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
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> This sounds an awful lot like the same problem I reported with fsck
> hanging.  I believe that Hugh had a candidate patch for that, which was
> related to dirty tracking limits.  It seems that that patch tested, and
> acked by Peter.  All on lkml under:
> 
> 	2.6.23-rc6-mm1 -- mkfs stuck in 'D'
> 

Unfortunately that whole thread is about fixing bugs in an already
much-changed balance_dirty_pages() in -mm.
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