[OpenAFS] Regulary Ooups'es on 2.4.29 + OpenAFS 1.2.13

[Troy Benjegerdes]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 11:43:36PM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote:
> 
> Am 10.02.2005 um 14:45 schrieb chas williams - CONTRACTOR:
> 
> >i am reasonably certain this is a race condition with the rename/unlink
> >done by afs afs_remove().  i believe this problem has been fixed in
> >the 1.3 version.  you might try running a 1.3 client.  otherwise the
> >fixes will need to be brought in from the 1.3 tree.
> >
> This happens with (at least) 1.3.74, too.

What kind of system are you running? How many CPUS?

I've had similiar problems with unlink/rename with 1.3.77. I don't get a
kernel panic anymore, but I have had instances where several imapd
processes get stuck in a deadlock on a users's Maildir/tmp/ directory.

    locks: (writer_waiting, write_locked(pid:1175 at:159), 135 waiters)
    18432 bytes DV 269828296 refcnt 136
    callback 00000000   expires 1106423373
    0 opens     0 writers
    normal file
    states (0x0)