> > > >There's currently an issue with 2.4 kernels that causes read starvation while >heavy writes are going on. As a consequence, if your array is rebuilding while >you have a journal replay going on, your boot will stall at replaying the >journal for a very long time. This isn't just a problem with RAID/ReiserFS, >it's more generalized than that. Also, I do believe there is a path somewhere >that fixes the issue. > Has this patch been submitted to any of the newer kernels yet? -- Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights, even if you don't know what your rights are, or who the person is you're talking to. Then on the way out, slam the door. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html