Re: New CentOS4/RHEL4-compatible xfs module rpms

Nathan Scott
2006-12-07T21:12:54Z

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.

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Nathan