[Linux-cluster] gfs2 lockup

Flavio Junior billpp at gmail.com
Tue Dec 2 21:01:13 UTC 2008


gfs2_glocksmith++

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Flávio do Carmo Junior aka waKKu

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Daan Biere <ebaydaan at gmail.com> wrote:

> i'll vote for glocksmith:)
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Kroth" <bpkroth at gmail.com>
> To: "Bob Peterson" <rpeterso at redhat.com>
> Cc: "linux clustering" <linux-cluster at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 9:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [Linux-cluster] gfs2 lockup
>
>
>
>  Bob Peterson <rpeterso at redhat.com> 2008-12-02 12:44:
>>
>>> ----- "Steven Whitehouse" <swhiteho at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> (snip)
>>> | I know all that sounds quite complicated, but in fact its usually
>>> | pretty easy to find the cause of deadlocks.
>>> (snip)
>>> | There is a tool which does some of this automatically, although I've
>>> | not tried it myself as I tend to use the manual method still.
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Steve is referring to a down-and-dirty tool that I wrote a while back
>>> when gfs2 hangs were more common.  Up to now it has just been sitting
>>> on my hard drive and I dust it off if/when someone needs it.  I'd like
>>> to open-source the tool and add it to our public cluster git
>>> repository, maybe as part of the gfs2-utils package.
>>>
>>> Before I do that, I want to run it by Fabio ("The Godfather") Di Nitto
>>> for some cleanups: the tool does some ugly things to accomplish its
>>> goal and I don't want to wake up with a horse head in my bed!
>>>
>>> Until then, I'd like to propose a naming contest.  Right now I'm not
>>> happy with the tool's name, which is currently "gfs2_hangalyzer".
>>> Other names that have been suggested: gfs2_howsithangin, gfs2_anaglock
>>> and gfs2_glocksmith.  Let me know what you think.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Bob Peterson
>>> Red Hat GFS
>>>
>>
>> I would vote for one of the last two: anaglock or glocksmith.
>>
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