impossible to create a ext3 filesystem on a LVM2 Logical Volume

[Paul Libert]

Dears,

I'm faced with the above mentionned problem.

System is a HP Proliant DL380 with HP SmartArray 5304-256 Controller and 
a HP StorageWorks 4300 disk shelf.
OS is Debian/testing with kernel 2.6.3 and LVM2.

I've created a new LV and when I try to create the FS on it, it fails 
when saying "Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information:"
sar output shows that CPU is in 100% wio.

Only way to solve it is to perform a hard reboot (killing the process 
does nothing).

I've performed a strace of the 'mkfs.ext3' and last system call is a 
call to fsync (see hereafter as small part of the trace file)

Any help appreciated !

Paul

write(1, "done\n", 5done
)                   = 5
write(1, "Writing superblocks and filesyst"..., 59Writing superblocks 
and filesystem accounting information: ) = 59
time(NULL)                              = 1080538375
lseek(3, 24576, SEEK_SET)               = 24576
write(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\6\265g@\6\265g@\6\265g@\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 
4096) = 4096
lseek(3, 35725312, SEEK_SET)            = 35725312
write(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 
4096) = 4096
lseek(3, 6385664, SEEK_SET)             = 6385664
write(3, "\30\6\0\0\31\n\0\0\32\16\0\0\33\22\0\0\34\26\0\0\35\32"..., 
4096) = 4096
lseek(3, 35713024, SEEK_SET)            = 35713024
write(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 
4096) = 4096
lseek(3, 35717120, SEEK_SET)            = 35717120
write(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 
4096) = 4096
lseek(3, 35721216, SEEK_SET)            = 35721216
write(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 
4096) = 4096
lseek(3, 35729408, SEEK_SET)            = 35729408
write(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 
4096) = 4096
lseek(3, 31580160, SEEK_SET)            = 31580160
write(3, "\37\36\0\0 \36\0\0!\36\0\0\"\36\0\0#\36\0\0$\36\0\0%\36"..., 
4096) = 4096
lseek(3, 1024, SEEK_SET)                = 1024
........
_llseek(3, 47915732992, [47915732992], SEEK_SET) = 0
write(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 
4096) = 4096
_llseek(3, 48049950720, [48049950720], SEEK_SET) = 0
write(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 
4096) = 4096
_llseek(3, 48184168448, [48184168448], SEEK_SET) = 0
write(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 
4096) = 4096
_llseek(3, 48318386176, [48318386176], SEEK_SET) = 0
write(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 
4096) = 4096
_llseek(3, 48452603904, [48452603904], SEEK_SET) = 0
write(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 
4096) = 4096
_llseek(3, 48586821632, [48586821632], SEEK_SET) = 0
write(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 
4096) = 4096
_llseek(3, 48721039360, [48721039360], SEEK_SET) = 0
write(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 
4096) = 4096
_llseek(3, 48855257088, [48855257088], SEEK_SET) = 0
write(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 
4096) = 4096
_llseek(3, 49392128000, [49392128000], SEEK_SET) = 0
write(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 
4096) = 4096
_llseek(3, 49526345728, [49526345728], SEEK_SET) = 0
write(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 
4096) = 4096
_llseek(3, 49660563456, [49660563456], SEEK_SET) = 0
write(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 
4096) = 4096
_llseek(3, 49794781184, [49794781184], SEEK_SET) = 0
write(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 
4096) = 4096
_llseek(3, 49928998912, [49928998912], SEEK_SET) = 0
write(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 
4096) = 4096
_llseek(3, 48989474816, [48989474816], SEEK_SET) = 0
write(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 
4096) = 4096
_llseek(3, 49123692544, [49123692544], SEEK_SET) = 0
write(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 
4096) = 4096
_llseek(3, 49257910272, [49257910272], SEEK_SET) = 0
write(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 
4096) = 4096
fsync(3