On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 07:44:13PM -0500, Kamal Dasu wrote: > Need some help understanding the state of xfs with rt subvolume > support on 2.6.37. > > When using xfs rt subvolume on a harddisk partition with kernel > 2.6.37.6,and normal r/w/delete file operations? causes deadlock > like hangs .? Failure? symptoms are lockups and mount failure on reboot. > > On further investigation it was found that one of the changes could be > the cause. > The same tests seem to pass with xfs in 2.6.31 kernel. > > xfs: simplify xfs_trans_iget? : aa72a5cf00001d0b952c7c755be404b9118ceb2e > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=commitdiff;h=aa72a5cf00001d0b952c7c755be404b9118ceb2e > > Reverting the change and forward porting to the xfs_trans_inode() seems to > get rid of the deadlock and mount issues . > > Below is the change Please just upgrade to Linux 2.6.39 or better Linux 3.0 which is the long term support release. RT subvolume support has been fixed in 2.6.39 by the following changes: xfs: only lock the rt bitmap inode once per allocation xfs: fix xfs_get_extsz_hint for a zero extent size hint xfs: add lockdep annotations for the rt inodes But in general the RT subvolume code is not regularly tested and only fixed when issues arise. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
