A GFS or GFS2 filesystem hangs after a backup is taken on RHEL 5 or RHEL 6
Issue
- There is lock contention on a
GFS
orGFS2
filesystem after a backup was taken. - A
GFS
orGFS2
filesystem appears to hung after a backup is taken or a filesystem was unfrozen. - There is lock contention on a
GFS
filesystem aftergfs_tool unfreeze <fs>
failed to unfreeze. - There is lock contention on a
GFS2
filesystem aftergfs2_tool unfreeze <fs>
failed to unfreeze.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 (with the High Availability and Resilient Storage Add Ons)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 (with the High Availability and Resilient Storage Add Ons)
GFS
orGFS2
filesystem has been frozen
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