Folks, I have a system that has a sporadic problem, and I can't seem to find any info on Google about it. I am running a variant of 2.4.9-34. A certain process is locking access to a filesystem, so that any subsequent access to it hangs the shell. I'm seeing: #ps xwo pid,command,wchan |grep inode 21062 <program name> wait_on_inode Looking at the source code, I can see that the inode attribute I_LOCK is getting set, but for some reason is not being cleared. At the very least, I'd like to know *which* inode is being locked so I can narrow the problem down to an application developed internally and a third-party database. I've tried debugfs and lde, but I can't get either to indicate a locked inode. I also used a kernel patch from Bill Hawes from '98 to dump inode info, but it oopses, probably due to it being 5 years out of date (http://tinyurl.com/srir) Does anyone have a handy utility/patch that can help pinpoint the errant inode? Thanks Mark _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
