On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:48, Gregory Farnum <gregory.farnum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > (Hopefully this email still makes sense; I rewrote it several times > trying to figure out what was going on with ceph-fuse!) tl;dr: Don't mount any network filesystem on the box serving that filesystem. The virtual memory disk buffer system will deadlock at some point. That includes Ceph and NFS. The cost of making that work right is so high that in practice it's just not done. -- 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