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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: SW RAID5 + high memory support freezes 2.6.3 kernel
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:30:11 -0800
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Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
>  > issue http://www.spinics.net/lists/lvm/msg10322.html could be still present
>  > in the current 2.6.3 kernel. I am able to repeat the conditions to halt the 
>  > 2.6.3 kernel (using mkfs.ext3 on RAID device):
> 
>  To be fair, your subject should say that 
>     SW RAID5 + high memory + loop device freezes 2.6.3 kernel
>                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

hm, yes.  And the loop code which was involved here was removed from the
kernel last week, so it's a bit academic.

Retest on current 2.6.3-bk or 2.6.3-mm3 please.