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Re: FW: unlink deadlock

To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: FW: unlink deadlock
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 16:21:55 +0000
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx, bob.gobeille@xxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20021030150116.X27461@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>; from willy@debian.org on Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 03:01:16PM +0000
References: <20021030150116.X27461@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
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User-agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i
> seeing on a 2.4.18 cluster of dual cpu IA-64 nodes.  Two processes on each
> node are writing (different) checkpoint files to the same directory on an
> XFS RAID 0 array and sometimes ending up in a D state and locking the entire
> filesystem (can't even do an ls).  Each process is writing a 155 MB
> checkpoint file A then a 155 MB checkpoint file B then unlinking A and
> writing a new A, then unlinks B ...  Were trying to reproduce the problem
> with a single process writing two large files (1MB to 3,000MB) and unlinking
> them over and over again but haven't been successful yet.

2.4.18 is pretty old and some of the functions in your trace don't exist
anymore in that form.  Any chance you could reproduce it with a current tree?


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