[Unionfs] Oops: unionfs-2.1.6

[Erez Zadok]

In message <BAY108-W188B0895AE66B75FCA836B969E0 at phx.gbl>, John Nielsen writes:

> Hi list,
> 
> I am seeing seemingly random oopses with unionfs that at least partially lo=
> cks up the kernel. I am not much of a programmer so I was wondering if you =
> guys had any input on this problem. This issue has been haunting me for the=
>  past few releases.
> 
> I am running a bog standart kernel.org 2.6.22.9 vanilla kernel plus the 2.1=
> .6 unionfs patch. I havent been able to track down the issue to a specific =
> cause. The crashes appear to be random and rather difficult to reproduce.

Can you please open a Bugzilla report (you can attach your oops trace and
.config to it).  I'd like to be able to track this, esp. if it happens at
different places.  When it happens, does the stack trace look the same or
different?  If it's different, then it'd be very helpful to attach the
different oops traces to the BZ report.

Now, what's your union configuration: what branches, how setup, etc.  Are
you using a livecd environment, chroot, pivot_root, etc.?  What is happening
at the time you get the oops (any particular app running?)

Thanks,
Erez.