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James Youngman wrote:
>> On system using OCFS2 mounted, findutils can make the whole system hang
>> while running updatedb (and then need a reboot).
> 
> It should not be possible for a unprivileged user-space program to
> crash the system.   This sounds like a denial-of-service problem
> caused by a strange configuration or perhaps a kernel or filesystem
> bug.
> 
The system doesn't crash, but access to mounted partition hangs and the
process is stuck and cannot be killed.
It might be a kernel or fs bug, but I don't know how to find out that.

Etienne.
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