From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:53:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [66.187.233.31]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id kB7HrdaG028993 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:53:45 -0800 Message-ID: <457854CB.5030507@sandeen.net> Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:52:11 -0600 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: New CentOS4/RHEL4-compatible xfs module rpms References: <4560AB84.9060200@sandeen.net> <45784E71.4080605@falconstor.com> In-Reply-To: <45784E71.4080605@falconstor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 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. > > Looks like xfs_io get stuck --see partial output from `ps auxf`: > > strace -ff -o freeze.txt xfs_freeze -f /mnt/xfs > \_ /bin/sh -f /usr/sbin/xfs_freeze -f /mnt/xfs > \_ /usr/sbin/xfs_io -r -p xfs_freeze -x -c freeze /mnt/xfs > > Anyone else encountering this issue? > Did you have this problem on the previous version? You might do sysrq-t (echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger) and see where the thread is stuck. -Eric