Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 19:58:09 +0200
From: Robert Sander <robert.sander@epigenomics.com>
To: Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: process hang with xfs 1.0.1
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On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 09:03:26AM -0500, Steve Lord wrote:
> > 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.

OK, using 2.4.12 or later was not an option because the aacraid
patch for the Dell RAID controller was not working.

But with 2.4.7 this particular problem went away now.

Greetings
-- 
Robert Sander
Computer Scientist                                       Epigenomics AG
Bioinformatics R&D        www.epigenomics.com         Kastanienallee 24
+493024345330                                              10435 Berlin