On 9/19/07, Wiesner Thomas <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Has there been any progress on this? I think I saw it, or something > > similar, during some testing of recent 2.6.23-rc kernels, on mke2fs took > > about 11 min longer than all the others (~2 min) and it was not > > repeatable. I worry that process of more interest will have the same > > hang. > > Well, I must say: no. I haven't tried anything further. I've set up the > production system a week or so ago > which runs Debian Etch with no modifications (kernel 2.6.18 I think, the > debian one and a mdadm 2.5.6-9). > I didn't notice the problem while creating the raid but that doesn't mean > anything as I didn't pay attention > and as I wrote earlier it isn't reliably reproducable. > (Watching it on a large storage gets boring very fast.) > > I'm not a kernel programmer but I can test another kernel or mdadm version > if it helps, but let me know > if you want me to do that. If/when you experience the hang again please get a trace of all processes with: echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger Of particular interest is the mke2fs trace; as well as any md threads. - 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
