bsdtar lockup on Current-03/10/2009

[Anonymous]

Tim Kientzle <kientzle at freebsd.org> writes:

> Anonymous wrote:
>> Paul Wootton <paul at fletchermoorland.co.uk> writes:
>>
>>>Im also using ZFS and have the same problems as Peg when trying to create a
>>>tar file.
>>>This is using Current as of last yesterday (09-mar-09).
>>
>> I'm not sure but in my case ktrace shows extattr_list_link() before the lockup.
>> So, for a workaround I disabled extattr support in libarchive. Can you verify that
>> this helps you, too?
>
> Please try this, which will poke that same system
> call in a different way:
>
>  rm -f foo foolink
>  touch foo
>  ln -s foo foolink
>  lsextattr -h user foolink

Right here.

>  lsextattr -h user foo
>  setextattr user test test foo
>  lsextattr -h user foolink
>  lsextattr -h user foo
>  setextattr user test test foolink
>  lsextattr -h user foolink

>
> I'm especially curious about the processor and

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E8400  @ 3.00GHz (3216.23-MHz K8-class CPU)

amd64 mode

> filesystem you're using when you see these problems.

ZFS with some updates from onnv-gate.

>
> Cheers,
>
> Tim