linux-kernel - Re: Fw: 2.6.17 oops, possibly ntfs/mmap related

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Message-Id: <200609220723.k8M7N1Vp021675@auster.physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Date:	Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:53:01 +0930 (CST)
From:	Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@...sics.adelaide.edu.au>
To:	aia21@....ac.uk (Anton Altaparmakov)
Cc:	akpm@...l.org (Andrew Morton),
	jwoithe@...sics.adelaide.edu.au (Jonathan Woithe),
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fw: 2.6.17 oops, possibly ntfs/mmap related

> > > > > We have a machine which is currently making heavy use of a usb hard disc
> > > > > formatted with ntfs.  There have been two occasions where the kernel has
> > > > > oopsed while this disc was being accessed heavily.  Before adding this HDD
> > > > > the machine in question was rock solid which leads me to think that it
> > > > > might be related to ntfs.  USB drives formatted with other filesystems do
> > > > > not appear to suffer from this problem.
> > > 
> > > I have now seen such an oops too with 2.6.18 kernel.
> > 
> > I assume it is a once-off?
> 
> So far yes.  I now have seen a recursive locking thing reported by the
> new lock analyzer but that looks like it has to do with NFS (my home
> directory is on NFS) so I don't think it is in any way related.

Our setup also has user home directories on NFS, so that much at least is
common to our configurations.  I don't know if the USB/NTFS user was writing
to their home directory as part of their work at the time of the oops
though.

Regards
  jonathan
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