On Friday June 27, mike@xxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello Neil and Linus, I've dropped Linus from cc as he won't be interested, and added linux-raid. > I am contacting both of you because you have submitted md raid code > to the 2.6.25 kernels. I have found an apparent deadlock condition > using software RAID1 with SUSE 11.0 and Fedora 9, both which use the > 2.6.25 kernels. Configuration is as follows: > > Dell Precision 450 with single Xeon 2.4 GHz processor > (hyperthreaded, looks like a dual core) > 2 Seagate 120GB IDE drives > sda1,sdb1 - 1GB swap > sda2,sdb2 - 100MB, RAID1, md0, /boot > sda3,sdb3 - balance of disk, RAID1, md1 3 LVM filesystems > > System locks up after running a short time. Had it hang once during > installation. Tried both Reiserfs and EXT3. We need more details about the lockup. Does the whole system lock up, or just the array. Can you get alt-sysrq-T output? That might be useful. > > Are either of you aware of this issue? If not, I can file a bugzilla. No I'm not aware of such an issue. I prefer to avoid bugzilla, lets just discuss it here. 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