On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Bill Pemberton
<wf...@viridian.itc.virginia.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Does the array have any kind of writeback cache?
>>
>
> Yes, the array has a writeback cache.
>
>>
>> Are all of the filesystems spread across all of the drives?  Or do some
>> filesystems use some drives only?
>>
>
> In all cases the array is presenting 1 physical volume to the host
> system (which is RAID 6 on the array itself).  That physical volume is
> made into a volume group and the filesystems are on logical volumes in
> that volume group.
>

I wonder if the barrier messages are making it to this write back
cache.  Do you see any messages about barriers in your kernel logs?
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