Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 May 2004 22:19:47 -0300 | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: hang with 2.4.26 copying to loopback device |
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On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 10:44:05PM +0100, Julian Bradfield wrote: > I'm running a vanilla 2.4.26 kernel (on a rather old distro, Mandrake > 9.0). > I have large (6GB) file on a remote NFS server (running 2.4.18), on > which > there is a file system that I'm mounting via loopback. > When I copy to this looped back filesystem, I get a hang after a few > megabytes. After the copy hangs, I move the cursor around and soon X > freezes as well. I can, however, reboot via sysrq. > > I've seen several reports a couple of years ago of deadlocks in > loopback, but nothing recently that I can find via searching. > Is there anything currently known to be an issue, or should I start > preparing a proper report?
Please prepare a more complete report with alt+sysrq+p and alt+sysrq+t output if possible. Attaching a serial console to the box is very helpful if you dont want to copy the output by hand. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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