Hi, On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 16:20 +0800, 程任全 wrote: > It seems that gfs2 cannot work well with Samba, > > I'm using the gfs2 and the new cluster suite(cman with openais), > > 1. the testing environment is that 1 iscsi target and 2 cluster node, > 2. the two nodes both used iscsi initiator connect to the target, > 3. they're using the same physical iscsi disk, > 4. run LVM2 on top of the same iscsi disk, > 5. on the same lv (logical volume), I created a gfs2 filesystem, > 6. mount the gfs2 system to a same path under 2 nodes, > 7. start samba to shared the gfs2 mounting pointer on the 2 nodes, > > now test with windows client, when two or above clients connects to the samba, > everything is still normal; but when heavy writers or readers start, > the samba server daemon changed to D state, that's uninterruptible in > the kernel, > I wonder that's a problem of gfs2? > Which version of gfs2 are you using? GFS2 doesn't support leases which I know that Samba uses, however only relatively recent kernels have been able to report that fact via the VFS.
> then I start a simple ls command on the gfs2 mouting point: > $ ls /mnt/gfs2 > the ls process is also changed to D state, > > I think it's problems about readdir implementation in gfs2, and I want > to fix it, someone could give me some pointers? > Can you get a stack trace? echo 't' >/proc/sysrq-trigger That should show where Samba is getting stuck, Steve. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
