system hangs when opening folder

[Mark Vollmers]

Hi, all. I've got a folder that is on our RAID drive (mounted on the server) that has been giving me problems. I noticed that when I go to run backup just now, the backup hung on a file in this folder. I went in (which I probably shouldn't have done) and deleted the file (actually, there were only two files, and I took them both out.) I could not open the file in question. I killed backup okay, but I cannot delete the folder. The system just hangs on the command, but I can ctrl-C out of it. I can cd to the folder, but the system (I was on a workstation) truly hangs when I ls, and it took out my server to boot. How can I get rid of this folder? Thanks!

Mark

[A. Clay Stephenson]

First thing to do is fsck the filesystem to prevent possible other damage like same duplicate datablocks assigned to same inode.

[Luis Miguel Parra Chica]

Hi,

It could be usefull for you to try to guess the process accessing to that file system. Execute " fuser -cu file_system_name " and you can see a list of the users and their process accesing to that file system.

Good luck

[Rajeev Tyagi]

Guessing one more possiblity. That folder may be containing large no. of files. So if you do ls on that folder it will hang and even if try to backup that folder it will take long time.
Try to filter out your files and remove them.

[Mark Vollmers]

Thanks for the ideas! After I posted this, the RAID drive crapped out on me. I imagine that being unable to open the folder or delete it has to do with the fact that the drive controller went belly up. I'll know once I get it back up and running. Hopefully, it will work right. Thanks for the help.

Mark