mke2fs -j

[Jason Gray]

I come across an odd situation when creating ext3 filesytems.  I have 
several SCSI disks attached to my server via an adaptec asa7211c iSCSI 
adapter .  Everything works great except when I'm creating a file 
system.  The load on the server jumps to 9.00 whenever I create a 
filesystem on the IP SAN storage.  The cpu seems fine (very low load).  
It seems to be the r/w requests that are bogging it down.  Once the 
filesystem is written the load drops to normal levels. 

Any ideas why this would be?

Cheers,

-- 
Jason Gray
Bardel Entertainment Inc.
jgray at bardel.ca