Re: syscall rmdir hangs with autofs

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 07/19/2010 05:47 PM, Sebastian Hetze wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 05:00:52PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>    
>> On 07/19/2010 04:45 PM, Sebastian Hetze wrote:
>>      
>>>        
>>>> It looks like VFS breakage.  Does this happen with older guest kernels?
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> currently I can confirm this problem with 2.6.31-22-generic-pae back to
>>> 2.6.31-16-generic-pae. What guest kernel version would you suggest?
>>>
>>>        
>> Can you try it on a non-virtualized system?
>>      
> This automount setup has been running non-virtualized for quite a while
> without problems until last year. Never seen or heared about similar hangs
> with automount before.
> We have not been able to reproduce this error in laboratory conditions.
> The productive system has 2TB data and the problem occurs totally
> unpredictable with real live workload.
> And there is no easy way to switch back to non-virtualized unless we
> declare this whole project a failure.
>    

Ahem.

What's your hardware platform?  EPT/NPT capable?  Host kernel version?

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