[OpenAFS-devel] Hangs during mv

[Hans-Werner Paulsen]

On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 06:49:34PM +0200, Harald Barth wrote:
> We have 1.3.82 with dcache patch on Linux 2.6.11.8+PDC and that gives
> us processes that hang in a ranlib or mv (ranlib does a rename in
> the end). My guess it that it is either
> 
> caused by DELTA linux-writepage-sync-20050308
> 
> or
> 
> maybe fixed by DELTA linux-vnode-aliases-20050529
> 
> or both ;-) Can you tell me which?
> (I suppose Derrick has been near this code lately)

We had a very similiar problem with OpenAFS 1.3.82 and Linux 2.6.11.
The process that hung was strip, which did a rename.
Applying "DELTA linux-vnode-aliases-20050529" does fix the problem.

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