Description of problem: Opening a rhel5 dup of bz 178705. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.18-18.el5/lvm2-2.02.16-3.el5
Resolving this as WONTFIX because Ext2 design doesn't allow stabilizing the filesystem while it is mounted. See explanation in bug 178705. There are two major problems with it: 1. You can sync, but you can't prevent any concurrent updates while the sync is in progress. Preventing concurrent updates would mean to add another lock to Ext2 and would kill performance. 2. Ext2 doesn't provide a method for removing open deleted inodes. The only way to remove them is to run fsck.