FreeBSD 5.3-RC1 loopback filesystem + quota hangups

[Brian Fundakowski Feldman]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 02:31:44PM -0700, Tony Arcieri wrote:
> Any process attempting to access loopback filesystem created with dd
> if=/dev/zero, configured with mdconfig -a -t vnode -f file,
> initialized with newfs, and mounted with the userquota option on
> FreeBSD 5.3-RC1 hangs in the D state.
> 
> Hand specifying a userquota=/anywhere/outside/the/loopback/filesystem
> however, seems to work fine.  Is there any way to allow the default
> quota.user and quota.group to be located in the root directory of the
> loopback filesystem itself without experiencing these D state hangups?

Can you do a traceback from DDB of the affected processes?  That's
usually the easiest way to locate the source of a deadlock.

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