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...point() on the buffer directly... Nope, still not enough - now I get an oops: [[[LVM is in the process of calling PV_FLUSH ioctl => invalidate_buffers()]]] Attempt to refile free buffer Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 <kdb stuff> refile_buffer journal_clean_data_list journal_commit_transaction kjournald Maybe it is better to just call journal_remove_checkpoint() on a B_FREE buffer in refile_buffer (if it has a transaction), and only oops if it is not part of a transaction? The other option is to add the manual journal_remove_checkpoint() for all B_FREE buffer...

The following 6 patches cleanup the jbd code and kill about 200 lines. First of 4 patches can apply to 2.6.13-git8 and 2.6.13-mm2. The rest of them can apply to 2.6.13-mm2. fs/jbd/checkpoint.c | 179 +++++++++++-------------------------------- fs/jbd/commit.c | 101 ++++++++++-------------- fs/jbd/journal.c | 11 +- fs/jbd/revoke.c | 158