Messages in this thread | | | From | Jonathan Woithe <> | Subject | Re: Fw: 2.6.17 oops, possibly ntfs/mmap related | Date | Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:53:01 +0930 (CST) |
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> > > > > We have a machine which is currently making heavy use of a usb hard disc > > > > > formatted with ntfs. There have been two occasions where the kernel has > > > > > oopsed while this disc was being accessed heavily. Before adding this HDD > > > > > the machine in question was rock solid which leads me to think that it > > > > > might be related to ntfs. USB drives formatted with other filesystems do > > > > > not appear to suffer from this problem. > > > > > > I have now seen such an oops too with 2.6.18 kernel. > > > > I assume it is a once-off? > > So far yes. I now have seen a recursive locking thing reported by the > new lock analyzer but that looks like it has to do with NFS (my home > directory is on NFS) so I don't think it is in any way related.
Our setup also has user home directories on NFS, so that much at least is common to our configurations. I don't know if the USB/NTFS user was writing to their home directory as part of their work at the time of the oops though.
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