hi there, here are two new tasks blocking for more than 120 seconds. but this time the task "kjournald2" followed dy "rsync" are affected. this happens when i tried to copy from one ext4 volume to an other with rsync. So its not samba - specific as i assumed at first let me say it seems to be a problem with ext4. Since i converted two of my volumes from ext3 to ext4 in the last week i got this problems. So i have to go back to ext3 to avoid loosing of data. Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412032] INFO: task kjournald2:1064 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412036] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412038] kjournald2 D c08145c0 0 1064 2 0x00000000 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412042] e5983ec0 00000046 5b337856 c08145c0 f69f2848 c08145c0 c477cdf8 000020fc Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412047] c08145c0 c08145c0 f69f2848 c08145c0 c477c209 000020fc c08145c0 e42b9180 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412052] f69f25b0 e5983f50 f646c478 e5983f44 e5983f74 c029a551 e5983ee4 c03154d4 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412057] Call Trace: Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412064] [] jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0x161/0xe80 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412069] [] ? rb_erase+0xb4/0x120 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412074] [] ? __dequeue_entity+0x21/0x40 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412077] [] ? lock_timer_base+0x27/0x50 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412080] [] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412082] [] ? try_to_del_timer_sync+0x45/0x50 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412086] [] kjournald2+0xce/0x200 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412088] [] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412091] [] ? kjournald2+0x0/0x200 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412094] [] kthread+0x7c/0x90 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412096] [] ? kthread+0x0/0x90 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412099] [] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412117] INFO: task rsync:14130 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412118] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412120] rsync D c08145c0 0 14130 14129 0x00000000 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412123] dd297ba0 00200086 dd2d2000 c08145c0 f6abc168 c08145c0 61295f12 000020fc Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412128] c08145c0 c08145c0 f6abc168 c08145c0 00000000 000020fc c08145c0 f641ddc0 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412133] f6abbed0 dd297bd4 f6abbed0 c87cc508 dd297bcc c0570b75 fffeffff 00000304 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412137] Call Trace: Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412141] [] rwsem_down_failed_common+0x75/0x1a0 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412144] [] rwsem_down_read_failed+0x1d/0x30 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412147] [] call_rwsem_down_read_failed+0x7/0x10 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412149] [] ? down_read+0x17/0x20 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412153] [] ext4_get_blocks+0x3a/0x200 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412156] [] ? alloc_buffer_head+0x10/0x40 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412158] [] ext4_da_get_block_prep+0x8a/0x120 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412162] [] __block_prepare_write+0x14a/0x3a0 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412165] [] ? add_to_page_cache_lru+0x44/0x70 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412168] [] block_write_begin+0x4e/0xe0 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412170] [] ? ext4_da_get_block_prep+0x0/0x120 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412173] [] ext4_da_write_begin+0x168/0x300 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412175] [] ? ext4_da_get_block_prep+0x0/0x120 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412178] [] generic_perform_write+0xa9/0x190 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412181] [] generic_file_buffered_write+0x5d/0x150 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412184] [] ? unix_stream_recvmsg+0x1aa/0x440 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412187] [] __generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x1f3/0x510 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412190] [] ? apparmor_socket_recvmsg+0x10/0x20 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412193] [] generic_file_aio_write+0x59/0xd0 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412197] [] ext4_file_write+0x4c/0x180 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412200] [] do_sync_write+0xbc/0x100 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412203] [] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412207] [] ? security_file_permission+0xf/0x20 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412210] [] ? rw_verify_area+0x5f/0xe0 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412212] [] ? copy_to_user+0x34/0x120 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412215] [] vfs_write+0x9a/0x190 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412217] [] ? do_sync_write+0x0/0x100 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412220] [] sys_write+0x3d/0x70 Dec 10 22:48:36 MeinFileServer kernel: [36480.412222] [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb