On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: > Curious btw what kind of filesystem size/raid type (5, but defaults I assume, > nothing special right? (right-symmetric vs. left-symmetric, etc?)/cache > size/chunk size(s) are you using/testing with? mdadm --create --level=5 --chunk=64 -n7 -x1 /dev/md2 /dev/sd[a-h]1 mkfs.xfs -f /dev/md2 otherwise defaults > The script you sent out earlier, you are able to reproduce it easily with 31 > or so kernel tar decompressions? not sure, the point of the script is to untar more than there is RAM. it happened with a single rsync running though -- 3.5M indoes from a remote box. it also happens with the single 10GB dd write... although i've been using the tar method for testing different kernel revs. -dean - 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