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From: John Jasen <jjasen1@umbc.edu>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.17 RAID-1 EXT3  reliable to hang....
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Really?

Software raid?

I have a quad ppro that is doing ext3/md just fine, and its running
2.4.17.

On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Matti Aarnio wrote:

> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 19:31:41 +0200
> From: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
> Cc: Richard Guenther <rguenth@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de>,
>      Oliver Paukstadt <pstadt@stud.fh-heilbronn.de>,
>      Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: 2.4.17 RAID-1 EXT3  reliable to hang....
>
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 02:09:29AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> ...
> > I spent *ages* on the ext3 buffer writeout code and it's still not
> > ideal.  Can you test with this patch applied?
> >
> > http://www.zipworld.com.au/~akpm/linux/2.4/2.4.18-pre1/mini-ll.patch
> >
> > It should go into 2.4.17 OK.
>
>    I just tried this into  2.4.18-pre4  and it still hard-hangs
>    the RAID-1 + EXT3 on SMP.
>
> /Matti Aarnio
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