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To: Robert Sander <gurubert-news@epigenomics.com>
cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: process hang with xfs 1.0.1 
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Comments: In-reply-to Robert Sander <ml-linux-xfs@epigenomics.com>
   message dated "Sat, 13 Oct 2001 13:55:13 -0000."
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 09:03:26 -0500
From: Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>
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> Hi!
> 
> Currently we see similar problems, reproducable.
> 
> We run linux 2.4.5 with XFS 1.0.1 on a Dell P2550 SMP machine.
> Samba 2.2.1a acts as the Windows file server.
> 
> The error (smbd in "D" state) occurs when creating a
> new directory with Windows Explorer (called "New Folder")
> then changing to that directory and creating another directory
> with the same name and then trying to move that one level up.
> 
> Expected is an error message like "Directory already exists"
> but instead smbd hangs. And quickly other processes to that
> want to access the directory where the first "New Folder"
> was created in.
> 
> Any hints? Is this XFS related?

In general I would recommend trying a newer kernel in situations like
this. There are plenty of bugfixes in both the mainline kernel and
the xfs code itself - we do not have the resources to backport the
fixes to an earlier kernel and repackage it.

There are kernel patches on the ftp site

	oss.sgi.com:/projects/xfs/download/patches

Steve

> 
> Greetings
> -- 
> Robert Sander
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