Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264204AbUDRWgv (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Apr 2004 18:36:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264201AbUDRWgv (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Apr 2004 18:36:51 -0400 Received: from smtp-out9.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.10]:16908 "EHLO smtp-out3.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264199AbUDRWgs (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Apr 2004 18:36:48 -0400 Subject: Re: reiser4 and megaraid problems with debian 2.6.5 (*solved*) From: Paul Wagland To: Nikita Danilov Cc: reiserfs-list@Namesys.COM, Linux SCSI mailing list , Atul Mukker , Domenico Andreoli , Hans Reiser , Linux kernel mailing list In-Reply-To: <1081987184.11193.87.camel@morsel.kungfoocoder.org> References: <36927C82-8DE0-11D8-A41D-000A95CD704C@wagland.net> <20040414090547.GB13578@raptus.homelinux.org> <6699459A-8E10-11D8-A41D-000A95CD704C@wagland.net> <16509.14375.539110.986025@laputa.namesys.com> <295743F0-8E17-11D8-A41D-000A95CD704C@wagland.net> <1081987184.11193.87.camel@morsel.kungfoocoder.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-YGH7GBhT02j08IrkG0cH" Message-Id: <1082327775.2003.5.camel@morsel.kungfoocoder.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 00:36:16 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1578 Lines: 45 --=-YGH7GBhT02j08IrkG0cH Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all, well partly solved anyway... I am just posting this so that if anyone finds this thread later they can also find this conclusion... There is still more work to be done before this problem can be properly closed, but at least now I am certain that it has nothing to do with the hardware :-) It appears (my own unsupported theory) that the problem is that reiser4 is taking some time to free up the free blocks that are currently in use by the wandering log. Since I was running a test that causes a lot of wandering log to be created, and I was doing it on a filesystem with very little free space, then I was running into the problem. Rerunning the test with either a) more space, or b) a smaller data set solved the problem. On the reiserfs-list we are now trying to find out exactly why this is happening, and how to solve the problem properly. Cheers, Paul --=-YGH7GBhT02j08IrkG0cH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBAgwLftch0EvEFvxURAp5AAJ47g0pYpmfoLzcxbUJ4eymWDYhcbACfSMII hSKeT05AHFB7jFC7SJuGIgE= =covQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-YGH7GBhT02j08IrkG0cH-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/