Just wanted to register myself as another user experiencing this bug and give some details on the conditions under which I have been able to reproduce it as they do not exactly correlate with some of the comments above.
Latest kernel in repository - 2.6.28.11.14 4.5TB ext4 partition on top of a same size dmcrypt partition, ~3 weeks old 3.9TB free - Indicates that a low amount of free space is not necessarily a large contributing factor I was able to reliably cause this problem by deleting a folder (rm -rf) that contained two files of ~90GB. This is a data partition and I am reasonably confident (97%) that there were no other operations being performed on that partition at the time. Lockup could also be caused by directly deleting the file (rm largefile.test) - Indicates that a directory tree traversal is not always necessary Following a number of repeats of the process - 1. Start deletion of large file 2. Experience lock-up 3. Reboot 4. Repeat The file was no longer present upon rebooting the machine. The problem was reproducible though by creating new large files and then attempting to delete them. I am very interested in getting this bug fixed and happy to help with any diagnosis I can. Best of luck, David -- 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
