From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Justin Piszcz Subject: if (stripe_cache_size =< chunk_size) { BUG() } Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:20:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids If you set the stripe_cache_size less than or equal to the chunk size of the SW RAID5 array, the processes will hang in D-state indefinitely until you change the stripe_cache_size to > chunk_size. Tested with 2.6.22-rc6 and a 128 KiB RAID5 Chunk Size, when I set it to 256 KiB, no problems. 128 KiB and below cause issues. Justin.