Re: statvfs() sleeps forever on tstile

[Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 09:28:23PM +0200, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> On NetBSD-5.1, when an FFS filesystem has extended attributes, any call
> to statfs(2) will never return from the kernel. ps -axl shows the
> process is sleeping at tstile.
> 
> Is it a known problem, is there already a PR for it?  

The problem is in the UFS_EXTATTR_AUTOSTART option. On mount, it locks
the root vnode and forget to unlock it. I will be committing a fix soon.

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu%netbsd.org@localhost