Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:09:31 -0700 | From | "Dan Williams" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 001 of 6] md: Fix an occasional deadlock in raid5 |
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> heheh. > > it's really easy to reproduce the hang without the patch -- i could > hang the box in under 20 min on 2.6.22+ w/XFS and raid5 on 7x750GB. > i'll try with ext3... Dan's experiences suggest it won't happen with ext3 > (or is even more rare), which would explain why this has is overall a > rare problem. >
Hmmm... how rare?
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119461747005776&w=2
There is nothing specific that prevents other filesystems from hitting it, perhaps XFS is just better at submitting large i/o's. -stable should get some kind of treatment. I'll take altered performance over a hung system.
-- Dan
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