Re: New CentOS4/RHEL4-compatible xfs module rpms

Eric Sandeen
2006-12-07T17:53:51Z

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