Untar hangs on ext3 file system

[Eric Sandeen]

Ritesh Majumdar wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> I am trying to untar a 450 MB tar file on ext3 file system, but every
> time untar (using the command "tar zxvf <filename>) hangs and I see no
> disk activity. 

Stating which kernel you are using would be a help ...

stracing the untar might tell you where it's at from the userspace
perspective; echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger would give you all of the
kernel thread tracebacks, and you could find the tar process in there to
see where it is stuck.

-Eric

> While I use ReiserFS file system I can untar the same file successfully.
> 
> I am not sure what is missing here.
> 
> Please Help!!!
> 
> Many Thanks,
> Ritesh.