On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 11:27:59PM +0200, Christian Guggenberger wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 22:32, Krzysztof Rusocki wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >
> > I've been running 2.4.20-xfs (CVS co on March, 4th)
> > on my home workstation flawlessly, until... now.
> >
> > Any process, which tries to ,,access'' (I didn't try
> > to narrow it down to some particular syscall)
> > /home (which is an XFS filesystem) hangs in ,,D'' state.
> >
> Hi,
>
> do you see anything special in your logs? maybe your disk's gonna die.
Nope, kernel logs are clean, and contain nothing unusual.
The disk hypothesis is worth verifying, however. I'll see what
I can do and I'll drop some info.
>
> I did see processes stuck in D state with pre mid-februar xfs-code.
> Nathan Scott checked a fix into cvs (Feb 17th, I think, but you maybe
> want to search the archives).
I'll take a look, thanks.
Note that Feb 17th is about fortnight before my checkout though.
> Speaking for myself, I have never seen
> processes stuck in D after that fix again...
>
> Christian
>
Cheers,
Krzysztof
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