Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

[Alistair John Strachan]

On Saturday 20 January 2007 02:41, Robert Hancock wrote:
> By the way, I assume that you guys are using reiserfs or xfs, as it
> appears no other file systems issue flush commands automatically. I had
> to test this by "echo 1 > delete" on the SCSI disk in sysfs, as I am
> using ext3.

I'll give it a spin now, and yes I'm using several large XFS partitions on 
this machine, layered on top of md RAID5. That's why this particular defect 
is so catastrophic (literally _everything_ is stalled).

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

Final year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
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