TCQ = tagged command queuing - for ide? However, please report about success. Also there is this tool called elvtune. It allowes you to "tune the I/O elevator per blockdevice queue basis". See the man pages. You could try to lower the read latency for the affected devices (/dev/hda, /dev/hdb, etc.) Regards, Michael Paesold neuron wrote: > That's actually a very good idea, /me 's gonna test that before 2.6. > > > Thought about trying TCQ for the IDE disks? > > > > On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 10:34, Jean-louis MATTON wrote: > > > what is your hardware config, mainly for disks ? > > > in the if I use LVM on top of ide disks some big file transfert, like > > > ftp tar ..., the system hang during the file manipulation. > > > when moving the same config on SCSI disk I never see this situation. > > > > > > My config is soft raid1 + lvm + ext3 fs > > > > > > JL _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/