Weird behaviour of mkfs.xfs

[Emmanuel Florac]

Le Sat, 26 Mar 2016 14:50:37 +0100
Emmanuel Florac <eflorac at intellique.com> écrivait:

> I'm running a plain vanilla 4.4.6 kernel; the xfs_progs are only
> slightly older, being version 4.2.
> 
> Nothing will stop the crazy mkfs.xfs, but  a hard reboot. Any idea?
> 

Actually I was too impatient; it finally ended avec 30 minutes of
burning bits to the flash. I don't understand the behaviour, though.
I'm used to mkfs.xfs making its magic extremely quickly, even on
humongous devices. Here it's a very fast array of only 3.2 TB...

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