Re: Errors and later panics in 2.6.0-test11.

Kevin P. Fleming
2003-12-03T17:25:45Z

Linus Torvalds wrote:

> The ones I've seen seem to be raid-0, but Nathan (nathans@sgi.com)
> reported problems in RAID-5 under load. I didn't decode the full oops on
> that one, but it really looked like a stale "bi" bio that trapped on the
> PAGE_ALLOC debug code.

The problem I reported was also with RAID-5, and I have also found a
problem similar to Nathan's (probably the same one) by just trying to
run bonnie++ on an XFS filesystem on DM over RAID-5, even after
formatting the XFS filesystem to forcibly align everything to RAID-5
stripes (64K units).