[OpenAFS] volserver caused ext3 oops?

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Jack Neely wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> I'm doing some early testing of using Linux and OpenAFS servers in our
> environment of all solaris based, transarc servers.  We set up a script
> to do some pounding on by moving a 500MB volume back and forth between
> it and another server.  At 4:00 in the morning looks like volserver
> caused a kernel oops in the ext3 code.  (Which I found to be really
> weird.)
> 
> Can anyone shed some light on what might be up here?  

It looks like a pretty boring "not our fault" crash; I can't say I've seen
such before. Particularly, I can't see how "caused" could be anything
other than "happened to be the process that lost since it was the heaviest
thing exercising the subsystem."

> We are running OpenAFS 1.2.7 on a Red Hat Linux 7.3-ish system, kernel
> 2.4.18-10.