Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: NFS hangs under 2.2.6 | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | 28 Apr 1999 19:00:25 +0200 |
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Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> writes:
> We do regular backups each night having all boxes NFS mounted on a central > server equipped with a tape drive. Every Tuesday night the box rebooted > since we switched to 2.2.X. I finally ran the backup for that special > machine manually. > > Backup ran normally for awhile until it got to the /dev directory. Then > there was an endless scroll of barely readable NFS error messages on the > console. > > Something about "NFS client: inode locked/unavailable" and "retrying". > This went on for awhile until some system resources were exhausted and the > watchdog daemon took the machine down. > > I could not find any messages at all in the system logs. > > Any hints on how to proceed with that one? Backing up other linux boxes > via NFS works just fine.
I can't find anything which corresponds to that message in the kernel.
If the error is repeatable, do you think you could turn on the NFS debugging: probably 'echo 1 >/proc/sys/sunrpc/nfs_debug' (turns on the VFS == fs/nfs/inode.c debugging) should suffice?
Cheers, Trond
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