Re: [linux-lvm] LVM 0.9.1 Beta 6, lockup during pvmove

[Patrick Caulfield <caulfield sistina com>]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 06:31:25PM +0100, Nils Juergens wrote:
> 
> Using strace on cp, i find that it locks up during another read (
> the last thing strace prints is "read(3,", where 3 was opened readonly
> on the NFS mount), so this may be independent of lvm, but i was unable
> to lock my box up without lvm.
> 
> I would really like to track this down, but my knowledge is rather
> limited so any help is appreciated.

It doesn't seem to be NFS related, I can reproduce it with purely local I/O. It
looks to be the new locking that went in to beta6 to fix some races.


patrick