> i choose that blocksize because the I/O erros printed by venti > while i first tried to copy arenas showed that blocksize. > > i conclude for now that doing paralel io on both drives results > in I/O errors in short time. reading/writing a single drive, the > system hangs/freezes after many hours without a trace. >
eh. sorry for the stupid suggestion. have you tried reducing the size of the reads? does it still hang with a 32k blocksize? perhaps plan 9 is too fast. :-). - erik
