Re: 2.1.94 still locks up hard after a few minutes

Rob Hagopian (hagopiar@vuser.vu.union.edu)
Tue, 14 Apr 1998 23:58:25 -0400 (EDT)


I'm seeing it in 2.1.93 with RAID-5 on 3 NCR825s... fsck hangs in kernel.
Makes for nasty bootups... Quite repeatable.
-Rob

On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> This bug is definitely due to the changes in device locking. The machine
> doesn't actually really die, and the system works fine _except_ that all
> IO to a certain controller will block forever (which, when the disk is
> your main filesystem, will obviously appear as a complete lockup).

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