Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Oct 1999 11:12:06 +0200 | From | Jan Kara <> | Subject | Re: chown problem on filesystems with quotas |
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Hello.
> So, I have a big problem. Versions affected are AT LEAST 2.2.12 and > 2.2.13ac1. > Problem: on filesystems with quotas chown(2) sometimes (or always ?) works > BAD. > > Ok, I had no time to explore the whole thing but here is my problem: > My server crashed every night (very high load, no chance to login or > reboot). I noticed that > cron job that does updatedb was the reason. > chown root.root /var/lib/locatedb hanged and all processes became S and > chown became D. Seems that kernel was locked. > ltrace shows that /bin/chown hangs on chown(2). > Quotas on /var were turned on. When I turned quotas on /var off, chown > worked Ok. > > So it seems to be a bug... Ooops... I'll look at it. Thanks for info. BTW: I think all newer 2.2 should be affected.
Honza.
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