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Date:      Tue, 2 Nov 2004 00:35:37 -0500
From:      Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        tarcieri@pdtp.org
Cc:        freebsd-current@www.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.3-RC1 loopback filesystem + quota hangups
Message-ID:  <20041102053537.GX93831@green.homeunix.org>
In-Reply-To: <c7e6b2b0041031133152dcbeb9@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <c7e6b2b0041031133152dcbeb9@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 02:31:44PM -0700, Tony Arcieri wrote:
> Any process attempting to access loopback filesystem created with dd
> if=/dev/zero, configured with mdconfig -a -t vnode -f file,
> initialized with newfs, and mounted with the userquota option on
> FreeBSD 5.3-RC1 hangs in the D state.
> 
> Hand specifying a userquota=/anywhere/outside/the/loopback/filesystem
> however, seems to work fine.  Is there any way to allow the default
> quota.user and quota.group to be located in the root directory of the
> loopback filesystem itself without experiencing these D state hangups?

Can you do a traceback from DDB of the affected processes?  That's
usually the easiest way to locate the source of a deadlock.

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