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Folks, I have a system that has a sporadic problem, and I can't seem to find any info on Google about it. I am running a variant of 2.4.9-34. A certain process is locking access to a filesystem, so that any subsequent access to it hangs the shell. I'm seeing: #ps xwo pid,command,wchan |grep inode 21062 <program name> wait_on_inode Looking at the source code, I can see that the inode attribute I_LOCK is getting set, but for some reason is not being cleared. At the very least, I'd like to know *which* inode is being locked so I can narrow the problem...

(Sent to linux-raid, linux-kernel and ext3-users since I'm not sure what type of issue this is) I've got a test system here running Redhat 7.1 + stock 2.4.9 with these patches: http://www.fys.uio.no/~trondmy/src/2.4.9/linux-2.4.9-NFS_ALL.dif http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/ext3-2.4-0.9.6-249.gz http://domsch.com/linux/aacraid/linux-2.4.9-aacraid-20010816.patch All three patches applied