Re: XFS dm_crypt BUG?

From: Nathan Scott
Date: Sun Feb 27 2005 - 17:26:01 EST


On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 01:34:31PM -0600, Stephen Lord wrote:
> Torben Viets wrote:
> >
> > I have a RAID 5(md0) with 3 disks on md0 (chunk-size 128) there is a
> > ...
> > I can't show you the kernel panic message, because I didn't found it in
> > the syslog, it is only on the screen,
> ...
> Just on a hunch, check if you have 4K stacks turned on, if you do, go
> back to 8K stacks and see if that cures it.

Also (if still an option) try mkfs'ing the filesystem with
a sector size matching your blocksize (eg. -ssize=4k), which
will make XFS's IO patterns a little more uniform. This has
resolved RAID5 driver confusion in the past, so worth a shot.

cheers.

--
Nathan
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