Re: nfs and xfs on 1.1T partition

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

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..