More on high i/o load wedging Fedora 10

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Tue Mar 17 14:30:17 UTC 2009


Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
>> I reformatted the backup drive with ext2 to see if that made any
>> difference.  Fedora still wedged during the backup, twice.
> 
> When/if you gather the info I requested - sysrq 'w' output, which will
> actually help identify & resolve the issue instead of speculating about
> it, please file a bug against the kernel, attach the info I asked for,
> and I'll see it that way.  I probably won't be following these threads
> further.
> 
> -Eric
> 

And when you do, post the details to this list.

I ask that as my F10 machine is going into a total freeze during backups 
as well.  The only item of what happened was a message in messages about 
a kernel oops.

I thought it may be related to the EXT4 issues and I am in the process 
of dumping EXT4 after reading many reports of data loss.

-- 
Robin Laing




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