Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Howdy all,
> I have a single XFS filesystem, mounted on a 4 disk software RAID5 array.
> It's been working just fine, until yesterday when a forced reboot rendered
> the raid in need of a resync.
> The resync starts just fine when the raid device is brought up, but as
> soon as the filesystem is mounted, the resync gets stuck -- the resync
> thread is still running, but nothing happens. It chews up CPU time and
> renders the system almost unuseable.
> Unmounting the filesystem, stopping the raid array (raidstop) and
> restarting will get the resync going again (until the filesystem is
> mounted, or the resync completes).
> Has anyone else encountered this problem? I'm running the XFS snapshot
> from Feb 23.
for XFS on SW RAID5 you need the experimental patch postet here
some time ago from either Martin K. Petersen or Russel Cattleman
- i'm now shure who it was ... just look for it in the archives
of the list
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