From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Wiesner Thomas" Subject: Re: mke2fs stuck in D state while creating filesystem on md* Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:20:22 +0200 Message-ID: References: <46F010EE.3000202@tmr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <46F010EE.3000202@tmr.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids > Has there been any progress on this? I think I saw it, or something > similar, during some testing of recent 2.6.23-rc kernels, on mke2fs took > about 11 min longer than all the others (~2 min) and it was not > repeatable. I worry that process of more interest will have the same > hang. Well, I must say: no. I haven't tried anything further. I've set up the production system a week or so ago which runs Debian Etch with no modifications (kernel 2.6.18 I think, the debian one and a mdadm 2.5.6-9). I didn't notice the problem while creating the raid but that doesn't mean anything as I didn't pay attention and as I wrote earlier it isn't reliably reproducable. (Watching it on a large storage gets boring very fast.) I'm not a kernel programmer but I can test another kernel or mdadm version if it helps, but let me know if you want me to do that.