Re: problems with xfs 2.6.13 on gentoo

[Sonny Rao <sonny@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:45:46AM -0500, Kristina Clair wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:35:35 +0000, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:10:24AM -0500, Kristina Clair wrote:
> > > xfs_freeze - causes the disk to become completely inaccessible and the
> > > machine to lock up.
> > 
> > you did an xfs_freeze -u after you did your snapshot, no?  Else this
> > is expected behaviour.
> > 
> 
> It is the initial xfs_freeze -f that locks up the machine...

Not trying to insult your intelligence here, but are you running
xfs_freeze on your root filesystem? 

I've done this before and seen exactly what you are describing.

Sonny