Hi, This command is hanging on 2.6.39-rc3, where /mnt/ceph is a ceph file system: dd conv=fdatasync if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/ceph/zero.`hostname -s` bs=4k count=4k It works on 2.6.38. As of commit e38f5b745075 in Linus' tree it still doesn't work. I bisected this to: 250df6ed274d767da844a5d9f05720b804240197 is the first bad commit commit 250df6ed274d767da844a5d9f05720b804240197 Author: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Mar 22 22:23:36 2011 +1100 fs: protect inode->i_state with inode->i_lock In the early stages of the bisection, bad commits would show this in dmesg: [ 137.004963] libceph: loaded (mon/osd proto 15/24, osdmap 5/6 5/6) [ 137.056431] ceph: loaded (mds proto 32) [ 137.063213] libceph: client4283 fsid 950217ad-499e-eab1-03f7-f6d245f42751 [ 137.063826] libceph: mon0 172.17.40.34:6789 session established [ 219.658002] INFO: rcu_sched_state detected stall on CPU 0 (t=60000 jiffies) For the last couple of bad commits during the bisection, the client box would just hang and I'd have to power-cycle it. When I reboot/remount after a hang, the file I was trying to write is there, with size and date both zero: # ls -l --time-style=+%s /mnt/ceph/zero.an1024 -rw-r--r-- 1 jaschut jaschut 0 0 /mnt/ceph/zero.an1024 strace suggests it's the write that hangs: close(3) = 0 close(0) = 0 open("/dev/zero", O_RDONLY) = 0 lseek(0, 0, SEEK_CUR) = 0 close(1) = 0 open("/mnt/ceph/zero.an1024", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = 1 rt_sigaction(SIGUSR1, NULL, {SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, NULL, {SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGUSR1, {0x401a20, [INT USR1], SA_RESTORER, 0x7f3a97f292d0}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x401a10, [INT USR1], SA_RESTORER|SA_NODEFER|SA_RESETHAND, 0x7f3a97f292d0}, NULL, 8) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {216, 671807533}) = 0 read(0, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 4096) = 4096 write(1, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 4096 Let me know if I can do anything else to help sort this out. -- Jim (Please Cc: me as I am not subscribed to lkml.) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html