From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Thu, 07 Dec 2006 13:12:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from postoffice.aconex.com (mail.app.aconex.com [203.89.192.138]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id kB7LCiaG026069 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2006 13:12:46 -0800 Subject: Re: New CentOS4/RHEL4-compatible xfs module rpms From: Nathan Scott Reply-To: nscott@aconex.com In-Reply-To: <45787ED4.5070801@falconstor.com> References: <4560AB84.9060200@sandeen.net> <45784E71.4080605@falconstor.com> <457854CB.5030507@sandeen.net> <45787ED4.5070801@falconstor.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 08:11:46 +1100 Message-Id: <1165525906.30459.25.camel@edge> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: geir.myrestrand@falconstor.com Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com, Eric Sandeen On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 15:51 -0500, Geir A. Myrestrand wrote: > Eric Sandeen wrote: > > Geir A. Myrestrand wrote: > > > >> However, I run into issues with xfs_freeze as it often locks up when I > >> try to freeze a file system where there is I/O activity. Sometimes it > >> happen on the first xfs_freeze invocation to freeze the file system, > >> other times I have to unfreeze and then it happens on the second time I > >> freeze. xfs_freeze never returns when this happens. > >> > > > > Did you have this problem on the previous version? > > I just tested with the old version, and I run into the same issue. > Does it happen with mainline (current) kernels? This is ringing some distant bells, something to do with an atomic_inc being in the wrong spot in [_]xfs_trans_alloc ... or maybe a wrong call to xfs_trans_alloc instead of the '_' prefixed version - details are murky now though. I do remember fixing ... something in here, a few months back, that fix may not be in Eric's codebase yet. cheers. -- Nathan