From: Laurent GUERBY <laurent@guerby.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [2.6.29-rc5][BUG] swapon on vfat file gets stuck on inode lock
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:45:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1236789959.11347.2107.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0903110837590.32478@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 08:53 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> > With 2.6.29-rc5 (on an ARM platform but I don't think it's significant)
> > when I try to enable swap on a file which is on an USB mounted vfat
> > partition the swapon syscall gets stuck:
>
> Oh wow. Are you _sure_ you want to do that? That's crazy.
I was testing a device with no swap (root over NFS) and GCC bootstrap
failed because of lack of RAM. So I first tried to add swap on file over
NFS, judging from various warnings on the net and that the system froze
after about 4 hours it was in the "crazy" category. After that I grabbed
an USB HDD which happened to be vfat formated, hence second freeze but
on swapon process this time.
I promise next time I'll stick to local ext3 on x86 :).
Laurent
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-11 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-11 13:57 [2.6.29-rc5][BUG] swapon on vfat file gets stuck on inode lock Laurent GUERBY
2009-03-11 15:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-03-11 16:45 ` Laurent GUERBY [this message]
2009-03-11 17:03 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-03-11 18:13 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-03-11 18:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-03-16 8:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
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