Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
>
> hi all
>
> why is it that Linux 'hangs' while doing heavy I/O operations (such as dd)
> to (and perhaps from?) ext2 file systems? I can't see the same behaivour
> when using other file systems, such as ReiserFS
>
A partial fix for this went into 2.4.17-pre2. What kernel are you
using?
For how long does it "hang"? What exactly are you doing when it
occurs?
Is your disk system well-tuned? What throughput do you get with
`hdparm -t /dev/hdXX'?
It surprises me that resierfs behaves differently...
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