Fix LVM snapshot deadlock Fix LVM snapshot deadlock: it is a bad idea to try to flush all running transactions while we already hold the superblock lock. Drop the sb lock while we flush. This only affects kernels that have the extra LVM VFS locking added in for filesystem quiescing on snapshots. --- linux-ext3-2.4merge/fs/ext3/super.c.=K0008=.orig Thu Aug 29 10:34:17 2002 +++ linux-ext3-2.4merge/fs/ext3/super.c Thu Aug 29 12:09:45 2002 @@ -1588,8 +1588,10 @@ journal_t *journal = EXT3_SB(sb)->s_journal; /* Now we set up the journal barrier. */ + unlock_super(sb); journal_lock_updates(journal); journal_flush(journal); + lock_super(sb); /* Journal blocked and flushed, clear needs_recovery flag. */ EXT3_CLEAR_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT3_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RECOVER);