From: Roger Heflin <rheflin@atipa.com>
Subject: Re: Apparent Deadlock with nfsd/jfs on 2.6.21.1 under bonnie.
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 09:37:20 -0500
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Dave Kleikamp wrote:

> 
> I don't have an answer to an ext3 deadlock, but this looks like a jfs
> problem that was recently fixed in linux-2.6.22-rc1.  I had intended to
> send it to the stable kernel after it was picked up in mainline, but
> hadn't gotten to it yet.
> 
> The patch is here:
> http://git.kernel.org/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=05ec9e26be1f668ccba4ca54d9a4966c6208c611
> 

Dave,

That appears to have fixed the JFS hangup.

MTBF before was about 1 hour, under the same test I am over 20 hours
and things appear to still be holding together.

                             Roger