Re: XFS dying when many processes copy many files/directories

[Jason White <jasonjgw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adrian Head writes:
 > 
 > Although the CVS (18Dec01) did fix the problem for 80 background cp 
 > processes 
 > the system still hangs on 160 background cp processes.  I have tried this 
 > test with ext2 & reiserfs and neither of these filesystems have problems - 
 > they just chug away until finished.

Perhaps what is needed is a file system test suite that simulates the
known conditions under which bugs are most likely to emerge. This
could be used to test new releases and to track down problems.