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Re: 9.1.19 blocking on Linux kernel issue
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Tue Dec 17 15:29:05 2002
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 15:29:02 -0500
Message-Id: <200212172029.PAA18884@pothole.mit.edu>
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
To: ghudson@MIT.EDU
CC: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: <1039881880.22111.14.camel@error-messages.mit.edu> (message from
Greg Hudson on 14 Dec 2002 11:04:40 -0500)
>I have created a modified initrd script which uses a ramdisk device, and
>verified that it works on one virgin 9.1.18 machine. More testing is
>required.
I've verified that the ramdisk methodology works where the other fails.
(And even works if there's a hung umount from the other failing.)
I also have a fairly degenerate case for reproducing it that has worked
on every athena linux box I've tried it on:
1) boot with a clear AFS cache
2) cat <2MB file in AFS> > /dev/null
3) run mkinitrd
I haven't found any other kind of network traffic that causes the
problem.
