Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:44:37AM -0700, Alex Romosan wrote: >> my system just sort of locked up and everything that's trying to write >> to disk is stuck. dmesg gives me this: > > This looks quite similar to a few other XFS issues in the .39 cycle. > Can you upgrade to latest Linus HEAD which has fixes for these similar > issues and see if that fixes your issues? i'll give it a try, but it might take some time before i can figure out if the fixes work as i still haven't figured out a way to reproduce this consistently (having a lot of processes write to disk at the same time increases the likelihood of it happening but doesn't guarantee it). --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other passive states) to systematize confusion | | and thus to help to discredit completely the world of reality. | _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs