From: Alistair John Strachan <alistair@devzero.co.uk>
Reply-To: alistair@devzero.co.uk
To: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Copying huge amount of data on ReiserFS, XFS and Silicon Image 3112 cause oops.
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 11:59:54 +0100
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On Tuesday 14 September 2004 09:14, you wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 12:44:25AM +0200, Marcin Garski wrote:
> > [Please CC me on replies, I am not subscribed to the list, thanks]
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I bought a new HDD Maxtor 6Y160M0 and connected it as hdg to Sil 3112
> > (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIIMAGE) on Abit NF7-S V2.0. I also have ST380013AS
> > (with Fedora Core 2 on hde2 and 2.6.5 kernel) as hde.
>
> Possible hardware problems?  Have you run memtest there?
>
> Was 4KSTACKS enabled in those kernels (I think so)? - XFS
> has one known problem with that option when running low on
> space (patch fixing that is being tested atm) and I think
> the reiserfs folks had some 4k stack issues as well at one
> point, so that might be another explanation.
>

Just out of interest, how low is "low space"? I've got a few machines I can't 
reboot running XFS+4K stacks; no problems so far but I'd like to sidestep 
them if possible.

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Cheers,
Alistair.

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