Re: mke2fs stuck in D state while creating filesystem on md*

2007-09-20 Thread Wiesner Thomas
If/when you experience the hang again please get a trace of all processes with: echo t /proc/sysrq-trigger Of particular interest is the mke2fs trace; as well as any md threads. Ok I've played around a bit. I didn't get those long hangs which I described in my initial mail but smaller

Re: mke2fs stuck in D state while creating filesystem on md*

2007-09-19 Thread Mike Snitzer
On 9/19/07, Wiesner Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has there been any progress on this? I think I saw it, or something similar, during some testing of recent 2.6.23-rc kernels, on mke2fs took about 11 min longer than all the others (~2 min) and it was not repeatable. I worry that process

Re: mke2fs stuck in D state while creating filesystem on md*

2007-09-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
Wiesner Thomas wrote: Before running Linux software raid on a production system, I'm trying to get the hang of it and use 4 loopback devices on which I play with RAID5. I've: * mdadm - v2.6.3 - 20th August 2007 * mke2fs 1.37 (21-Mar-2005) Using EXT2FS Library version 1.37 * Linux