Re: RAID-1 and Reiser4 issue: umount hangs

From: Arend Freije
Date: Thu Jun 01 2006 - 14:51:22 EST


Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Wed, May 31 2006, Arend Freije wrote:
>
>> You're probably right. I found several posts on the linux-kernel list
>> involving problems with write barrier support in combination with SATA
>> and ext3 . So I tried:
>>
>> # mkfs -t ext3 /dev/md/0
>> # mount -o barrier=1 /dev/md/0 /mnt
>> # cp -a $src /mnt
>> # umount /mnt
>>
>> And indeed, umount hangs now as well.
>> So it seems to be a linux-kernel issue after all...
>>
>
> Can you please try 2.6.17-rc5?
>
>

Great! 2.6.17_rc5 fixed this is issue. For Reiser4 as well as Ext3 (with
barrier=1).

Many Thanks!

Arend
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