'ls -l' hangs at getxattr on veritas filesystem while listing large files, why ?
Issue
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'ls -l' hangs on getxattr on veritas filesystem while listing large files. Does not happen on ext3 filesystems on the same SAN in the same array.
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Further testing shows that this only happens in 1 out of 10 tries while the system is under heavy I/O load. To test this case, copy a file e.g.
# cp RHEL6.0-20100414.0-AP-x86_64-DVD1.iso foobar.iso -
Try to list the contents from another terminal.
# strace ls -l ... lstat("1399", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3897225216, ...}) = 0 getxattr("1399", "system.posix_acl_access" => now nothing happens until the copy job finished
Environment
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5
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Veritas Filesystem version 5.0.30.20-MP3RP2_RHEL5
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