On Tuesday December 20, seb@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I'm seeing hard system lockups with 2.6.15-rc5 when trying to use a > RAID-6 array as a PV for LVM2. > > I've got four SATA disks hanging off a Marvell 6081 controller. The disks > work great when I access them "raw" (without going through md or dm). > Nice & fast & reliable. The disks work great when used "raw" as PVs > for an LVM2 setup. And they work great when used in a RAID-6 array. > > The problem comes when I build a RAID-6 array and try to use the array > as a PV. The system hangs within several seconds of touching the array. > No messages on the console, no blinky on the Caps Lock, and no pingy on > the network... > > My guess is it's an interaction between the RAID code and the LVM code, > since both pieces work fine on their own. > > Any suggestions on how to debug this? I'm kind of stumped here... > alt-sysrq-P ? alt-sysrq-T ? NeilBrown - 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