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Manish Lachwani wrote:
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> I am seeing system hangs with 2.4.17 SMP kernel when doing mke2fs accros 12
> drives in parallel. However, the hangs only occur when the I/O rate from
> vmstat is high:
> 

Quite possibly it has not hung.  You just need to wait half an
hour or so.

The algorithm isn't very good.
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