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Date:      Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:06:31 +0100
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Joe Peterson <joe@skyrush.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mount of ext2fs volume stuck in "D+" state (disk uninterruptible wait)
Message-ID:  <47B0F117.4030105@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <47B0EA08.10202@skyrush.com>
References:  <47B0EA08.10202@skyrush.com>

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Joe Peterson wrote:
> I just tried (under FreeBSD 7.0-RC1) to mount an ext2fs volume - I've
> mounted it before with no trouble on this same FreeBSD version.  This
> time, mount appeared to hang.  I noticed that I can see the contents of
> the volume under the mount point, so the mount seemed to "work", but the
> process is stuff.  "ps" shows:
> 
> root   1307  0.0  0.0  3156   792  p6  D+    5:21PM   0:00.00 mount
> /mnt/linux-home
> 
> The "ps" man page says that "D" means: "Marks a process in disk (or
> other short term, uninterruptible) wait."
> 
> Is there any way I can investigate what is going on?  I cannot umount
> (device busy) or break out of the mount command...

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html

Kris



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