I had a very similar problem (posted here: http://www.spinics.net/lists/raid/msg05320.html). After trying loads of combinations/configurations, I'm back to SuSE 8.2, which works flawless. I don't know what causes the problem, but I would be glad to know... Greets Christoph -----Original Message----- From: linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of david@xxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Freitag, 18. Juni 2004 17:53 To: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Raid-5 freezes with large writes... Continues after a more /proc/mdstat??? I have the same problem. David > Hej, > > I am using Suse 9.1 and have build (finally) my Raid-5 volume using > the raidtools. > > When I write large amounts of data to the array (i.e. 50 GB) in a cp > or mv operation, it always stops in the middle of the copy. It waits. > There are no kernel messages, no errors, it just waits. > > The strange part is that after I do a "more /proc/mdstat" my cp/mv > operation continues. > > Performance is descent with approx. 20-30MB/s writes and 80MB/s reads. > > You can see the rest of my setup in a previous post: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-raid&m=108738559332187&w=2 > > Has anybody seen this before? > > Alwin > > P.S. I am using two Maxtor 200GB IDE disks and two identical disks but > with SATA interface. My box is a Dell 400SC and I run Suse 9.1 with > the default kernel. > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" > in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo > info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
