From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 04:51:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 04:51:49 -0500 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:61710 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 04:51:30 -0500 Subject: Re: ServeRaid 4M with IBM netfinity and kernel 2.4.x To: stef@via.ecp.fr (Stéphane Borel) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 09:51:25 +0000 (GMT) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20010216032956.B11267@via.ecp.fr> from "Stéphane Borel" at Feb 16, 2001 03:29:56 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > We have a problem here that make the filesystem crash during big files > transfer (>1M). It only happens with kernel 2.4.x ; with 2.2.18, it is > very stable and fast. I don't believe IBM have provided an 'official' 2.4 patch set for the serveraid yet so there may be bugs lurking. > I should add that the behaviour of serveraid under 2.4 is somehow > strange : during fsck for instance, it seems to get stuck and won't go > further if we don't strike a key on the keyboard. Yes this has also been seen. At the time you have to do this it appears that the Linux system is not waiting for the keyboard. It only happens on specific IBM netfinities too. Perhaps someone at IBM can trace it down a bit further since I certainly suspect we upset the firmware. Alan