> heheh. > > it's really easy to reproduce the hang without the patch -- i could > hang the box in under 20 min on 2.6.22+ w/XFS and raid5 on 7x750GB. > i'll try with ext3... Dan's experiences suggest it won't happen with ext3 > (or is even more rare), which would explain why this has is overall a > rare problem. > Hmmm... how rare? http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119461747005776&w=2 There is nothing specific that prevents other filesystems from hitting it, perhaps XFS is just better at submitting large i/o's. -stable should get some kind of treatment. I'll take altered performance over a hung system. -- Dan - 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