After upgrade to kernel gentoo-sources 2.6.19-r5 net-fs/shfs freezes when trying to provide information about large directories. Unable to circumvent. Clean shutdown of OS compromised as cannot unmount filesystems Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Connect to remote 2.Attempt to display contents of directory of > 800 files (may be les, that always works) 3.Have tried with nautilus and with ls command, same problem Actual Results: Application software connection to remote files system freezes (Nautilus and ls command both tried) Could not unmount remote filesystem either. shfs module appears "frozen" Expected Results: Directory contents should have been returned to app This problem has only been observed since upgrade to gentoo-sources 2.6.19-r5 This software is in regular use to connect my development boxes (gentoo) to my production servers (FreeBSD) and I have found it pretty reliable until now.
Update: The freeze is reproducible when trying to copy single, large files from small directories too, so presumably the hang is related to data volumes. ctrl-c won't kill the cp command as it's the kernel module that's messed up. HTH
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 168556 ***
