If you can get into kdb, and do:
kdb> btp <pid of mount>
to see what the backtrace is, and where it's stuck, that might be helpful.
-Eric
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Sidik Isani wrote:
> Hello -
>
> I managed to get xfs_repair to clean my filesystem by adding some
> swap space. It reported no problems. After that, mount -o ro
> worked fine:
>
> XFS mounting filesystem md(9,0)
> Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: md(9,0)
>
> but attempting to mount without read-only still hangs, apparently
> indefinitely (there's no activity on the machine.) The version
> of mount is 2.11u, and we're running the CVS kernel. It's a bit
> scary to think we're going to have to reformat all our filesystems
> if we need/want to upgrade beyond 2.4.16? Any idea what is going
> on? Again, xfs_repair now says this is a perfectly consistent
> filesystem, so this shouldn't be happening.
>
> Be seeing you,
>
> - Sidik
>
>
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