Re: Fw: 2.6.17 oops, possibly ntfs/mmap related

From: Jonathan Woithe
Date: Fri Sep 22 2006 - 03:05:53 EST


> > > > > We have a machine which is currently making heavy use of a usb hard disc
> > > > > formatted with ntfs. There have been two occasions where the kernel has
> > > > > oopsed while this disc was being accessed heavily. Before adding this HDD
> > > > > the machine in question was rock solid which leads me to think that it
> > > > > might be related to ntfs. USB drives formatted with other filesystems do
> > > > > not appear to suffer from this problem.
> > >
> > > I have now seen such an oops too with 2.6.18 kernel.
> >
> > I assume it is a once-off?
>
> So far yes. I now have seen a recursive locking thing reported by the
> new lock analyzer but that looks like it has to do with NFS (my home
> directory is on NFS) so I don't think it is in any way related.

Our setup also has user home directories on NFS, so that much at least is
common to our configurations. I don't know if the USB/NTFS user was writing
to their home directory as part of their work at the time of the oops
though.

Regards
jonathan
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