Sqlite hangs on fsync on Hammer partition

[Kyle Butt]

On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 03:03:17AM +0200, Gergo Szakal wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:08:38 +0200
> Michael Neumann <mneumann at ntecs.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've a little program that uses the Sqlite database. After it calls
> > seven times fsync (sometimes only twice), the whole process blocks.
> > The process cannot be killed (-9) anymore, and when I change into the
> > directory where I executed the program and do a "ls", I'm blocked as
> > well.
> > 
> > When I execute the same program on a UFS partition, it doesn't hang.
> > So it seems to be a Hammer-related issue.
> > 
> > According to ktrace/kdump, it hangs on fsync.
> > 
> > I'm now creating a core-dump and uploading it.
> 
> That's kinda the same error I get with mtn (it also uses SQLite). Any
> firefox3 hangs?
> 

firefox uses sqlite internally, and firefox 3 moved more things into sqlite.

Kyle