Re: XFS Mount Hangs the Partition (on latest kernel + many old 2.6.x ones)

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>]

Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Replying to myself, I'd like to ask for a response to my previous message, 
> especially the order in which the operations Mr. Scott mentioned need to be 
> performed.

 >>>- get sysrq-t information for all hung processes, esp. mount;
 >>>- send xfs_info output for the filesystem in question;
 >>>- dump the log (xfs_logprint -C) and send it to us.


xfs_logprint -C /dev/foo against the unmounted device.

sysrq-t when it's hung, after you try to mount

xfs_info /mnt/point when it's mounted.

Well, you can't mount, because recovery hangs, so,

mount -o ro,norecovery /dev/foo /mnt/point; xfs_info /mnt/point

-Eric