Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 09:27:30 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Consistent file system hang with RELENG_6 of today ... Message-ID: <20050729092647.Q74149@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20050729001252.N1194@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20050728231728.E968@ganymede.hub.org> <20050729001252.N1194@ganymede.hub.org>
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On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > Now, as most of the "old timers" here know, my jail environment makes > use of unionfs to "mount" a template layer, to share common binaries > amongst the VMs ... > > I have tried two different ways of doing this, both result in the exact > same 'file system hang' ... and I have a core of each 'method' ... > > The first was to use mount_devfs to, of course, mount the /dev directory > within the jail itself ... > > The second, I used the same /dev that existed within the jail, based on > bulding a jail using a 4.x system ... > > In both cases, the hang appears to be at the same spot, where 'sendmail' > (in this case, the postfix port) starts up ... It would also be interesting to know: if you take unionfs out of the picture (i.e., you use a regular file system for testing purposes), does the problem go away? Robert N M Watson
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