Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 04:29:35PM +0200, Laurent Wacrenier wrote: > Hi, > > We're experiencing a file system lock with DRBD and XFS. > When mouting the filesystem, the kernel logs > Starting XFS recovery on filesystem: drbd0 (logdev: internal) > but nothing happens and the disk reports no IO. this has nothing to do with xfs. for housekeeping (meta data update), we had a recursive, synchronous, call to generic_make_request in the generic_make_request path. with 2.6.22 and later kernels, this will deadlock :-> > The bug started to occurs with Linux 2.6.22 and drdb 0.8.0.3. I upgraded > to 2.6.22.5 and 0.8.0.5 but nothing changed. btw, drbd versioning has dropped the leading zero, staring with 8.0.0 > Does someone has a suggestion? go back to pre 2.6.22 kernel, or use current drbd svn: svn co http://svn.drbd.org/drbd/branches/drbd-8.0 or wait for 8.0.6 which will include this fix. -- : Lars Ellenberg Tel +43-1-8178292-0 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Vivenotgasse 48, A-1120 Vienna/Europe http://www.linbit.com : __ please use the "List-Reply" function of your email client.