From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i8EKGVr04068 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:16:31 -0400 Received: from copilotconsulting.com (ip-66-181-5-46.cust.i2bnetworks.com [66.181.5.46]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i8EKGVA9026908 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:16:31 -0400 Received: from localhost (copilotconsulting.com [127.0.0.1]) by copilotconsulting.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4699A902F for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:06:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from copilotconsulting.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (copilotconsulting.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 32649-08 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:06:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:06:24 -0700 From: Tracy R Reed Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] massive LV corruption Message-ID: <20040914200624.GE13649@copilotconsulting.com> References: <20040914124540.GA13649@copilotconsulting.com> <51D9A0D8-065D-11D9-BB02-000A95730E92@spamaps.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ryJZkp9/svQ58syV" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <51D9A0D8-065D-11D9-BB02-000A95730E92@spamaps.org> Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: To: LVM general discussion and development --ryJZkp9/svQ58syV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 07:49:45AM -0700, Clint Byrum spake thusly: > Hans Reiser has stated that this is because each filesystem has a lock=20 > on it, so while writing to, say, /home/cvs, anybody else who wants to=20 > write to /home/cvs will have to wait. We have a CVS server where the=20 That's odd given that each hard drive can only physically write to one place on the disk at a time anyhow due to head movement and that the kernel caches the writes and lays them back out on the disk with some sort of elevator algorithm. > You said you were running 2.4.22.nptl or something. Oops, right you are. That is what the box in question was and is running. I was thinking of a different box with FC2 on it. --=20 Tracy Reed The attachment is a digital signature. http://copilotconsulting.com More info: http://copilotconsulting.com/sig --ryJZkp9/svQ58syV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBR09A9PIYKZYVAq0RAmuWAJoD6sht3icNheXLXJzAahs6/bhOLACghKyv jIdc2FMeLzIANMXzidsQIfk= =1pFy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ryJZkp9/svQ58syV--