From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Julian Bradfield <jcb@inf.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hang with 2.4.26 copying to loopback device
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 22:19:47 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040504011947.GC8028@logos.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16534.48421.296794.467014@toolo.inf.ed.ac.uk>
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 10:44:05PM +0100, Julian Bradfield wrote:
> I'm running a vanilla 2.4.26 kernel (on a rather old distro, Mandrake
> 9.0).
> I have large (6GB) file on a remote NFS server (running 2.4.18), on
> which
> there is a file system that I'm mounting via loopback.
> When I copy to this looped back filesystem, I get a hang after a few
> megabytes. After the copy hangs, I move the cursor around and soon X
> freezes as well. I can, however, reboot via sysrq.
>
> I've seen several reports a couple of years ago of deadlocks in
> loopback, but nothing recently that I can find via searching.
> Is there anything currently known to be an issue, or should I start
> preparing a proper report?
Please prepare a more complete report with alt+sysrq+p and alt+sysrq+t
output if possible. Attaching a serial console to the box is
very helpful if you dont want to copy the output by hand.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-04 1:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-03 21:44 hang with 2.4.26 copying to loopback device Julian Bradfield
2004-05-04 1:19 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2004-05-08 18:40 ` Julian Bradfield
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