newfs locks entire machine for 20seconds

[Steven Hartland]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ivan Voras" <ivoras at freebsd.org>


> Steven Hartland wrote:
> 
>> The machine is running with ULE on 7.0 as mention using an Areca 1220
>> controller over 8 disks in RAID 6 + Hotspare.
> 
> I'd suggest you first try to reproduce the stall without ULE, while
> keeping all other parameters exactly the same.

Thanks for the idea Ivan, easy one to try. Just in the process of doing a update
to the latest 7.0 so will do than then try BSD if no change.

    Regards
    Steve

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