Re: 2.6.24-rc2 XFS nfsd hang / smbd too

Christian Kujau
2007-11-15T22:02:18Z

On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Christian Kujau wrote:
> Upon accessing the /data/sub part of the CIFS share, the client hung, waiting
> for the server to respond (the [cifs] kernel thread on the client was
> spinning, waiting for i/o). On the server, similar things as with the nfsd
> processes happened

Turns out that the CIFS only hung because the server was already stuck
because of the nfsd/XFS issue. After rebooting the server, I was
able to access the CIFS shares (the xfs partition too) just fine. Yes, the
xfs partition itsself has been checked too and no errors were found.

C.
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BOFH excuse #348:

We're on Token Ring, and it looks like the token got loose.