MD(4)/vnode hangs resolved (?)

Ruslan Ermilov ru at freebsd.org
Wed Mar 10 08:30:31 PST 2004


On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 08:39:49PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> Those of you who have experienced that md(4) backed by vnodes hang your
> systems, please try this patch:
> 
> 	http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/md.patch
> 
[...]
> This solves the case where the system get stuck in "wdrain" because
> a md(4)/vnode device is relatively large compared to the buffer cache.
> 
I still have that script that causes the lockup.  When I get back
home (should happen in less than an hour), I will give it a shot
and let you know.  Thanks for tracking it down, "make release" on
IA-64 will be grateful too!  ;)


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
FreeBSD committer
ru at FreeBSD.org
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