hi -
> o There was a stall problem where the raid would just grind to a halt,
> this was fixed by a kernel change in the 2.4.7-pre series. This was
sorry to beat a dead horse, but I have a couple questions related to
this and the fact that I might have to go with the redhat-based 2.4.3
1.0.1 release kernel on a couple of machines.
- what was the fix to the 'grind to a halt' problem? was it a patch
against the md code in particular, or some other part of the kernel?
- does anybody know if this same problem existed in the redhat 1.0.1
kernel? I don't know how much rigorous testing that kernel has been
subjected to. is there a specific test that triggered this problem in
the stock + xfs kernel that I could run on the redhat kernel?
- if this problem does turn out to be in the redhat 1.0.1 kernel, and
there is a specific, simple patch that fixes it, my next step would be
to figure out if it has any chance of working with the 2.4.3 -ac
kernel. I wonder what my chances of that would be.
thanks,
Matt
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