On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 06:21, Peacock, Tom wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Has anyone bumped into a hanging session when backing up an encapsulated "/"
> root filesystem on a SUN Sunfire box with a single GigE card?  No problem
> backing up the /var, /tmp or other filesystems.  But whenever I specify "/"
> the session starts and hangs at 16MB.  Even after killing the session still
> appears locking up a device.  This serevr is part of a new deployment.
>
> Any thoughts or clues on the cause of this.  I was thinking filesystem issue
> or 64bit issue.

The only time I've ever seen this sort of behaviour is when in either /
or in the first 1 or 2 subdirs of / there's a directory mounted from a
PC-NFS share where the PC died as opposed to cleanly shutting down.

Cheers,

-Preston de Guise.

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