On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 at 7:28pm, Christoph Hellwig wrote
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 01:40:14PM -0500, Mark Hartwig wrote:
> > Hello all, I'm having a problem with nfsd (from Mandrake 9.0 install 2.4.19
> > kernel) on a xfs partition. I am running an IDE RAID5 with 3Ware's Escalade
> > 7500 controller. The xfs partition as 1.1T. I can nfs cp large ammounts of
> > small files on to the xfs partition without any problems, but as soon as I
> > try to transfer a large file to the partition, the entire server freezes
> > when about 200 megs have been transfered. At this point, the server is
> > completely frozen and can only be restarted manually. I can, however, nfs
> > cp large files to the same server, but on to a smaller 100G ext3 partition.
> > All other disk-intensive processes cause the xfs partition no problems,
> > other than NFS. I can scp, rcp, rsh, and rsync to and from the XFS
> > partition perfectly. I can also copy large files to and from it locally
> > with no problems. The server seems to hang only when I transfer large files
> > via NFS to or from the xfs partition. I can, for example, nfs cp -R a
> > directory that is 1G to the xfs partition as long as each file within the
> > directory is less than about 200M. However, a nfs cp of a single file that
> > is 260M freezes the server every time. Ideally, I would like to find a work
> > around the issue without having to re-format the entire RAID. Any help
> > would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Is this reproducible with a volume slightly under 1TB? There's a bunch of
> linux block driver code that doesn't know about unsigned types unfortunately..
For the record, I just did a cp of a 1.7GB file to a 1.8TB NFS mounted XFS
partition. The server is running 2.4.18-xfs-1.1, and the XFS partition is
a software RAID0 stripe across 2 3ware 7500-8 cards.
I don't have any servers (yet) w/ >1TB partitions running more recent
code.
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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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