From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263196AbTHVO62 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:58:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263277AbTHVO62 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:58:28 -0400 Received: from waste.org ([209.173.204.2]:39357 "EHLO waste.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263196AbTHVO61 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:58:27 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 09:58:04 -0500 From: Matt Mackall To: Zwane Mwaikambo Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test3-mm3 - cp -a kills machine Message-ID: <20030822145804.GJ3958@waste.org> References: <20030821220849.GE23889@waste.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 09:49:03PM -0400, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > I've just tried to copy the contents of a rescued disk image and > > quickly reproduced a lockup. I'd dig more but I'm still working on the > > rescue process, so I'm just sending this out as a data point for now. > > Went a little like this: > > > > # losetup /dev/loop0 repaired-disk-image # ext3 image, passes fsck > > # mke2fs -j /dev/hdc1 > > ... > > # mount /dev/loop0 orig > > # mount /dev/hdc1 new > > # cp -av orig/ new/ > > [ solid hang after a few seconds ] > > NMI watchdog? I don't think so. I only ran this once with APIC enabled, while in X. But I did have a netconsole client running and that didn't report anything. -- Matt Mackall : http://www.selenic.com : of or relating to the moon