Please let me know if you figure it out. I have a server with a similar problem which persists even after changing virtually every component of the system. One hint I learned is that it can at times hang for serveral hours and then proceed. Just because it's been several minutes does not necesarily mean a 180 mile trip to the datacenter. -- Ray Morris support@bettercgi.com Strongbox - The next generation in site security: http://www.bettercgi.com/strongbox/ Throttlebox - Intelligent Bandwidth Control http://www.bettercgi.com/throttlebox/ Strongbox / Throttlebox affiliate program: http://www.bettercgi.com/affiliates/user/register.php On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 14:49:09 +0800 (CST) "Busby.Cheung" <chaimvy@163.com> wrote: > Hi ALL, > When I used the lvcreate cmd in my system, it blocked for a > long time. My OS kernel version is linux-2.6.29, is there any bug? > Here is the mesg: INFO: task lvcreate:30225 blocked for more than 480 > seconds. "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables > this message. lvcreate D ffff880028088780 0 30225 25700 > ffff88013e02a100 0000000000000086 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 > 00000000000000d0 ffff880124879910 ffff880124879c70 00000001000aaa4a > ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff 7fffffffffffffff > Call Trace: > [<ffffffff804d4d5d>] io_schedule+0x5d/0x9e > [<ffffffff802bfff5>] __blockdev_direct_IO+0x8a4/0xa3b > [<ffffffff80272842>] __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0x54/0x5e > [<ffffffff802bee5e>] blkdev_direct_IO+0x45/0x4a > [<ffffffff802bed84>] blkdev_get_blocks+0x0/0x95 > [<ffffffff80272c28>] generic_file_direct_write+0xd2/0x18b > [<ffffffff80272f65>] __generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x284/0x3a5 > [<ffffffff802734d7>] generic_file_aio_read+0xe1/0x539 > [<ffffffff80273138>] generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x34/0x80 > [<ffffffff8029d6db>] do_sync_write+0xc9/0x10c > [<ffffffff803958e4>] tty_put_char+0x2b/0x2d > [<ffffffff80249396>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e > [<ffffffff80326a0c>] selinux_file_permission+0x5a/0x120 > [<ffffffff8029ddd7>] vfs_write+0xad/0x136 > [<ffffffff8029e2f4>] sys_write+0x45/0x6e > [<ffffffff8020bedb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b > > I don't know whether it is the kernel's scheduling bug or the > lvm2's bug, anyone knows? > Best Wishes! > > > _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/