On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:34:10AM +0530, Supratik Goswami wrote: > We are using Amazon EC2 instances. > > ubuntu@ip-10-0-0-10:~$ uname -aLinux ip-10-0-0-10 2.6.32-318-ec2 > #38-Ubuntu SMP Thu Sep 1 18:09:30 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux The growfs hang problem was fixed in 2.6.34. On earlier kernels, if you do a grow while the system is under allocation load it could deadlock. growing on a mostly idle filesystem was generally OK, but under heavy load problems could occur. This hang is what xfstests 104 exercises... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs