Re: Soft lockup with 2.6.17-rc1 on amd64

2006-04-20 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 04:35:51PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > However: could you please give me details of dm-[0-3]? Particularly > how big they are, but also what sort of dm target and what underlying > devices. They're set up by EVMS, and point to partitions on a normal disk. They're about 250

Soft lockup with 2.6.17-rc1 on amd64

2006-04-19 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
(Please Cc me on any replies, I'm not on the list.) Hi, 2.6.17-rc1 on amd64 (dual-core, with SMP enabled) gives me: [ 36.829054] md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 [ 36.835091] md: bitmap version 4.39 [ 36.839010] md: linear personality registered for level -1 [ 36.8471

Re: [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction

2006-01-23 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 02:54:20PM +0200, Ville Herva wrote: > If you really want the rest of us to convert from md to lvm, you should > perhaps give some attention to thee brittle userland (scripts and and > binaries). If you do not like the LVM userland, you might want to try the EVMS userland,

Re: [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction

2006-01-17 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 11:17:15AM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Neil, is this online resizing/reshaping really needed? I understand > all those words means alot for marketing persons - zero downtime, > online resizing etc, but it is much safer and easier to do that stuff > 'offline', on an inac