From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 06:07:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 06:07:03 -0400 Received: from colorfullife.com ([216.156.138.34]:54279 "EHLO colorfullife.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 06:06:48 -0400 Message-ID: <3ADAC46B.7105E631@colorfullife.com> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 12:07:39 +0200 From: Manfred Spraul X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-ac3 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linas@backlot.linas.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: fsck, raid reconstruction Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The first 2 problems aren't real problems (modify /etc/fstab, perhaps a special ioctl could be added to raid and fsck stops the reconstruction) - at most anoying, but clearly no bugs. But the third one could be a bug: > > Third problem: > > I just tried boot 2.4.3 today. (after an unclean shutdown) fsck runs > at a crawl on my RAID-1 volume. It would take all day (!! literally) > to fsck. The disk-drive activity light flashes about once a second, > maybe once every two seconds. (with a corresponding click from the > drive). Can you boot without the raid-1 volume? Run top/vmstat during the fsck+reconstruction - I assume the system runs out of memory and bdflush/kswapd are looping. -- Manfred