The only time I've ever had this type of thing happen was when copying a /home directory and coming across a smbmounted directory and either pulling the data from the other box, or if the connection was terminated abnormally, cp would just hang... But that doesn't sound much like your problem since there are no networked FS's. POI- What the heck is this box that there's 150GB in /home??? What do you use for backups of this box(local or network backups? tape or live tar? etc...)?
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 08:44:24-0800"Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > I'm experiencing a very strange problem, and i'm wondering if anyone > has seen it. I just added a terabyte storage array to an existing > server, running the XFS version of RH-7.3 with SCSI hardware RAID > arrays. I was attempting to copy all of /home to the new array > (approximately 150GB) when cp hung about 2/3 of the way through. > Everything is a local filesystem, there's no NFS, or networked files > anywhere. cp now shows up as in an 'uninteruptable sleep' state, and > as a result i can't kill it. Unfortunately, there's some kind of IO > blocking going on as a result, so the load on the box is hovering > between 3.00 & 4.00 (this is a quad xeon box, so its not fully > incapacited). > > I've checked messages, dmesg, the RAID controller status, memory, disk > usage, and they all come up OK, with not a single error or lack of > resources. At this point, i'm completely stumped as to why cp is > hung. > The bigger problem now, is that since cp is causing an IO block, the > > box is really unusable, since everything is very slow. And i can't > shutdown cleanly, because the cp process won't terminate. The only > time i've ever seen behvaior like this before is when i was trying to > shutdown a box that had an NFS share that had dropped off the network. > > Has anyone seen this before?? > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com > > 8:35am up 41 days, 21:49, 3 users, load average: 1.14, 0.70, > 0.37 > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> > http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
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