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Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 02:47:47 +0000
From: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@....ed.ac.uk>
To: Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@....de>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, htejun@...il.com,
jens.axboe@...cle.com, lwalton@...l.com
Subject: Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5
On Saturday 20 January 2007 02:41, Robert Hancock wrote:
> By the way, I assume that you guys are using reiserfs or xfs, as it
> appears no other file systems issue flush commands automatically. I had
> to test this by "echo 1 > delete" on the SCSI disk in sysfs, as I am
> using ext3.
I'll give it a spin now, and yes I'm using several large XFS partitions on
this machine, layered on top of md RAID5. That's why this particular defect
is so catastrophic (literally _everything_ is stalled).
--
Cheers,
Alistair.
Final year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
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