Robert Watson wrote: > On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: [ ... lockups when using vnodes to hold jail FS instances ... ]
> Hmm. The only bug like that I know about in -current was corrected in one > of Kirk or Jeff's passes through getnewvnode() a few months ago, and > involved a race condition when rotating logs in the same directory during > a newsyslog call during heavy recursive directory activity -- > specifically, the security script. Do you have any more practical details > about the nature of the hang? In particular, the results of show locks > and show lockedvnods would be useful for interesting processes, as well as > their wait channels. I'm positive it's a problem. Someone posted test code for it already, which is simpler than the code I've seen the problem reported with. I don't personally use jails this way, and it was really complicated to repeat before the new test code. If you are interested, I can find the previous report for you; it had to do with the guy's system with multiple jails locking up every day at the same time, which turned out to be the time the /etc/security cron job ran it's 'find'. This was about 4 months ago, and I helped him work around the problem by rearranging his directories so that the vnode files acting as backing store were never in the same subdirectory as a similar file, if you want to look for it in the archives. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
