RHEL7: GFS2 filesystem which was frozen hangs when attempting to unfreeze

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

Freeze gfs2 fs on node1, then create a file on node2, then unfreeze the fs on node1 caused the file system hang. Customer can reproduce the issue using the commands below

on node1: # fsfreeze -f  <GFS2 filesystem>
on node2: # touch <GFS2 filesystem>/test.txt
on node1: # fsfreeze -u <GFS2 filesystem>

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 (seen on 7.5 and 7.8, probably all minor versions affected)
  • GFS2
  • freeze

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