Re: 2.4.18 + XFS 1.1 on multiprocessor: bizzare hard hang on Samba writes.

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 03:27:24AM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> 
> I figured the problem was with the software RAID (even though I'm using an
> external log on a partition of the Adaptec's "disk") but copying onto the
> Adaptec RAID volume, as it turns out, has the same issue.  So, I assume
> the likely culprit is a locking botch somewhere in the acenic or dpti
> drivers or in XFS.  I assume everyone in the world would know if acenic
> or dpti were broken (they have many more users that XFS, I've got to guess)
> so I tend to blame XFS...

This appears to actually be some kind of locking botch in the IDE driver;
I cannot provoke the problem with the IDE bus totally inactive, and I *can*
provoke it even if I switch all filesystems to ext3.  I think XFS is off
the hook here.

Thor