Zygo Blaxell posted on Sun, 19 Oct 2014 15:25:26 -0400 as excerpted:
> It is the rename (mv) that is getting stuck. It seems to hold a lock
> that prevents any process from later traversing d/e with find or ls, but
> does not prevent a stat on the path 'd/e/f' (which reports that d/e/f is
> now a
I've seen a hang in renameat2() from time to time on the last few
stable kernels. I can reproduce it easily but only on one specific
multi-terabyte filesystem with millions of files. I've tried to make
a simpler repro setup but so far without success.
Here is what I know so far. First, the stac
