From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id q0VJi9UD094192 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:44:09 -0600 Received: from ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net (ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net [150.101.137.129]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id tDiUF0tbgGbfHqbC for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:44:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 06:44:04 +1100 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: File system remain unresponsive until the system is rebooted. Message-ID: <20120131194404.GH9090@dastard> References: <20120131013124.GE9090@dastard> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Supratik Goswami Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:34:10AM +0530, Supratik Goswami wrote: > We are using Amazon EC2 instances. > > ubuntu@ip-10-0-0-10:~$ uname -aLinux ip-10-0-0-10 2.6.32-318-ec2 > #38-Ubuntu SMP Thu Sep 1 18:09:30 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux The growfs hang problem was fixed in 2.6.34. On earlier kernels, if you do a grow while the system is under allocation load it could deadlock. growing on a mostly idle filesystem was generally OK, but under heavy load problems could occur. This hang is what xfstests 104 exercises... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs