Re: Fw: 2.6.17 oops, possibly ntfs/mmap related

We have a machine which is currently making heavy use of a usb hard disc
formatted with ntfs. There have been two occasions where the kernel has
oopsed while this disc was being accessed heavily. Before adding this HDD
the machine in question was rock solid which leads me to think that it
might be related to ntfs. USB drives formatted with other filesystems do
not appear to suffer from this problem.

I have now seen such an oops too with 2.6.18 kernel.

I assume it is a once-off?

So far yes. I now have seen a recursive locking thing reported by the
new lock analyzer but that looks like it has to do with NFS (my home
directory is on NFS) so I don't think it is in any way related.

Our setup also has user home directories on NFS, so that much at least is
common to our configurations. I don't know if the USB/NTFS user was writing
to their home directory as part of their work at the time of the oops
though.

Regards
jonathan
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