Re: XFS Mount Hangs the Partition (on latest kernel + many old 2.6.x ones)

[Shlomi Fish <shlomif@iglu.org.il>]

Replying to myself, I'd like to ask for a response to my previous message, 
especially the order in which the operations Mr. Scott mentioned need to be 
performed.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

On Thursday 08 December 2005 17:55, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 December 2005 22:55, Nathan Scott wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 01:57:38PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > > Hi all!
> >
> > Hi there,
>
> Hi Mr. Scott (and all)!
>
> > > (Please CC me on replies)
> > >
> > > I encountered a problem with the Linux kernel handling of XFS, in which
> > > attempting to mount a certain XFS partition (but not a different one on
> > > the same hard-disk) caused the mount process to hang, and all other
> > > XFS-aware apps (like "xfs_check" or "xfs_repair") to hang too. However,
> > > running xfs_check
> > > or xfs_repair before the first mount (after a reboot) worked, and
> > > eventually resolved this problem.
> > >
> > > I blogged about it (relatively incoherently) here:
> > >
> > > http://www.livejournal.com/~shlomif/7182.html?mode=reply
> > > http://www.livejournal.com/~shlomif/7547.html?mode=reply
> >
> > Unfortunately there's not much information here in your mail or
> > there that would help us to analyse this further.  If you see this
> > behaviour again could you:
> > - get sysrq-t information for all hung processes, esp. mount;
> > - send xfs_info output for the filesystem in question;
> > - dump the log (xfs_logprint -C) and send it to us.
>
> Sure. But in what order should I do all that?

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