Re: possible recursive locking detected - while running fs operations in loops - 2.6.18-rc2-git5

["Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>]

On 26/07/06, Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com> wrote:
> On Jul 26, 2006  00:16 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > What I did to provoke it was to run 6 different xterms (with a bash
> > shell) with the following loops in them in a test directory that was
> > initially empty :
> >
> > xterm1:   while true; do mkdir a; done
> > xterm2:   while true; do rmdir a; done
> > xterm3:   while true; do touch a/foo; done
> > xterm4:   while true; do find .; done
> > xterm5:   while true; do sync; sleep 1; done
> > xterm6:   while true; do rm -r a; done
>
> See racer test at ftp.lustre.org/pub/benchmarks/racer-lustre.tar.gz
>
> It does the above, but a bunch more things and is a truly pathalogical
> test script that does lots of "stupid user tricks", unlike normal tests
> which are only doing operations that expect to be successful.
>
> PS - during the racer.sh test run "rm" is known to segfault after hitting
>      an internal assertion, nobody is sure why.
> PPS- I don't know who wrote this program, it was originally posted by
>      someone not the author to linux-fsdevel or something.
>

Thanks. That's a nice little test suite.

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