Re: SW RAID5 + high memory support freezes 2.6.3 kernel

From: Pavol Luptak
Date: Mon Feb 23 2004 - 08:38:29 EST


On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 09:30:11PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > > issue http://www.spinics.net/lists/lvm/msg10322.html could be still present
> > > in the current 2.6.3 kernel. I am able to repeat the conditions to halt the
> > > 2.6.3 kernel (using mkfs.ext3 on RAID device):
> >
> > To be fair, your subject should say that
> > SW RAID5 + high memory + loop device freezes 2.6.3 kernel
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> hm, yes. And the loop code which was involved here was removed from the
> kernel last week, so it's a bit academic.
>
> Retest on current 2.6.3-bk or 2.6.3-mm3 please.

I tried 2.6.3-bk4 and seems it works without problems :)
I'm going to copy about 300 GB data to this cryptoloop/RAID5 and report the
eventual bugs....

Pavol
--
_____________________________________________________________________________
[wilder@xxxxx] [http://trip.sk/wilder/] [talker: ttt.sk 5678] [ICQ: 133403556]

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: Digital signature