On Thursday January 12, thunder7@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > 2.6.15-mm3 hangs during boot for me, after the lines > > ======== > md4: bitmap initialized from disk: read 15/15 pages, set 51 bits, status: 0 > created bitmap (224 pages) for device md4 > ======== > > ctrl-alt-del to reboot works sometimes (2 out of 3). Below is complete > dmesg (from 2.6.15-mm2, ver_linux output, .config and raid details). Yep, this is probably a known problem with recent changes to the 'barrier' code. Try to convince md not to use barrier by changing md_super_write in drivers/md/md.c. Simply remove if (!test_bit(BarriersNotsupp, &rdev->flags)) { struct bio *rbio; rw |= (1<<BIO_RW_BARRIER); rbio = bio_clone(bio, GFP_NOIO); rbio->bi_private = bio; rbio->bi_end_io = super_written_barrier; submit_bio(rw, rbio); } else leaving the submit_bio(rw, rbio); which comes after it. 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