Messages in this thread | | | Date | 14 Apr 1996 09:42:29 GMT | From | Raul Miller <> | Subject | sysv filesystem lockups |
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I've experienced a number of system lockups after accessing sysv filesystems mounted on loopbacked files. These lockups don't always happen at the same point in the filesystem, so I don't think they're due to corrupt filesystems. [Sometimes I can mount the file system, copy the entire thing, then unmount safely. Other times they happen rather quickly.]
These lockups happen much more rapidly when the underlying file is on a umsdos file system than when on a ext2 file system.
This is with a 1.3.88 kernel (as are the bugs I reported earlier today -- don't know if I mentioned that bit then).
This lockup prevents new processes from getting anywhere.
[I was going to take some register snapshots with alt-scrollock, but somehow it wasn't working for me. I think it's because I tried left-alt scrollock rather right-alt scrollock, but the lockup is rather distressing, and I'm not eager to repeat it.]
Is there anything in particular I should look for?
-- Raul
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