Re: linux-2.0.32 + ben-inode.diff hangs on NFS

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
9 Nov 1997 16:20:24 +0100

In article <644all$73g$1@defiant.cistron.nl>,
Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> wrote:
>I'm running linux-2.0.32-1 + the ben-inode.diff on one of our machines.
>Some processes start to hang in state `D' on NFS access.
>
[..]
>Seems they are stuck in wait_on_inode. So this is probably a bug in the
>ben-inode.diff...

It just got worse - I tried to revert to a "plain" 2.0.32-1, so compiled
one (on another machine), installed it but even lilo now hangs in state D.
Tried "sync" .. also hangs. Oops - hard reboot required I'm afraid. We'll
see what happens with 2.0.32-1 vanilla.

Mike.

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