New distro question

[Jarod Wilson]

On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 14:24 -0400, Michael ODonnell wrote:
> 
> > what bug did you run across?  Don't suppose there's a BZ open on it?
> 
> Sorry, I don't have the number in front of me at the moment but
> here's the patch that fixes it:
> 
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=294675
>  
> Symptom is that the system appears to hang when filesystems
> are unmounted, with larger filesystems being more likely to
> suffer the bug than smaller ones.  If you're willing to wait
> (sometimes longer than 30 minutes) it does eventually recover
> but it's so busy in the meantime (apparently handling some
> long deferred dnode bookkeeping with some b0rken locking)
> that the cooling fans often throttle up to handle the load...

Oh, ew, I'm somewhat familiar with that one. At least, peripherally. I
can't remember if it was Eric Sandeen, Jeff Moyer or Josef Bacik working
on it... Ah, the suffix on the patch says Josef. :) I thought we'd
already pushed an errata kernel to deal with that...


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Jarod Wilson
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