Comment 268 for bug 330824

I have experienced a similar bug removing largish video files (about 4GB or so) from an internal SATA drive formatted with an xfs filesystem.

Sometimes when doing an "rm -rf" on a directory on that file system, the rm will hang and remain pegged at 100% cpu usage. As opposed to other posters in this thread, I don't see any suspicious messages in dmesg about hangs or timeouts, and usually I'm able to "rm -rf" the directory in question from another terminal session without a hang.

The only thing that kills the rm is a reboot, kill -9, Ctrl-C and so on all won't work on that process.

Please let me know if you need any further logs, I'm running kernel 2.6.32-27-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Wed Dec 1 23:52:12 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux on Linux Mint10 which is based on Maverick 10.10.