temporarily system freeze with high I/O write to ext2 fs

From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (roy@karlsbakk.net)
Date: Thu Dec 06 2001 - 09:03:47 EST

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hi all

why is it that Linux 'hangs' while doing heavy I/O operations (such as dd)
to (and perhaps from?) ext2 file systems? I can't see the same behaivour
when using other file systems, such as ReiserFS

roy

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