From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Cousins Subject: Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 09:57:49 -0500 Message-ID: <45B4D0ED.7030500@maine.edu> References: <001801c73e14$c3177170$28df0f3d@kylecea1512a3f> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Justin Piszcz Cc: kyle , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Justin Piszcz wrote: > Yes, I noticed this bug too, if you change it too many times or change it > at the 'wrong' time, it hangs up when you echo numbr > > /proc/stripe_cache_size. > > Basically don't run it more than once and don't run it at the 'wrong' time > and it works. Not sure where the bug lies, but yeah I've seen that on 3 > different machines! Can you tell us when the "right" time is or maybe what the "wrong" time is? Also, is this kernel specific? Does it (increasing stripe_cache_size) work with RAID6 too? Thanks, Steve -- ______________________________________________________________________ Steve Cousins, Ocean Modeling Group Email: cousins@umit.maine.edu Marine Sciences, 452 Aubert Hall http://rocky.umeoce.maine.edu Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME 04469 Phone: (207) 581-4302