Hi - this crash occured with Fedora 16 kernel 3.1.5-6.fc16.x86_64. The message below appeared and the machine locked up with the hard drive on and the keyboard lights blinking. Btrfs was running with compress-force=zlib on a software raid md linear array (~5GB), around 50% full. ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at mm/page-writeback.c:1370 __set_page_dirty_nobuffers+0x11a/0x150() Hardware name: C51GM03 Modules linked in: btrfs zlib_deflate libcrc32c nfs fscache it87 hwmon_vid xfs snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm raid456 async_raid6_recov async_pq snd_timer nfsd snd raid6_pq forcedeth async_xor uinput ppdev parport_pc parport nv_tco i2c_nforce2 xor async_memcpy async_tx edac_core edac_mce_amd lockd nfs_acl auth_rpcgss linear soundcore k8temp i2c_core serio_raw sunrpc snd_page_alloc firewire_ohci firewire_core pata_acpi crc_itu_t ata_generic pata_amd sata_nv 3w_9xxx [last unloaded: btrfs] Pid: 9378, comm: btrfs-delalloc- Not tainted 3.1.5-6.fc16.x86_64 #1 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8106b6ef>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0 [<ffffffff8106b74a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [<ffffffff8111ea5a>] __set_page_dirty_nobuffers+0x11a/0x150 [<ffffffffa04d3173>] compress_file_range+0x5a3/0x610 [btrfs] [<ffffffffa04d3215>] async_cow_start+0x35/0x50 [btrfs] [<ffffffffa04f2472>] worker_loop+0x142/0x520 [btrfs] [<ffffffffa04f2330>] ? btrfs_queue_worker+0x2b0/0x2b0 [btrfs] [<ffffffff8108ddbc>] kthread+0x8c/0xa0 [<ffffffff815de934>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 [<ffffffff8108dd30>] ? kthread_worker_fn+0x190/0x190 [<ffffffff815de930>] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13 ---[ end trace 5aee123eeca0621f ]--- There are some log messages around 10 minutes after this, but is the last significant thing in them and is what was shown on the terminal. The lockup occured while writing to the array with a tar-to-tar pipe from an XFS file system. The command is tar -b 2048 -cpf - -C $indir ./ | tar -b 2048 -xpf - -C $outdir Jeremy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html