On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 06:37:18PM -0700, Shawn Everett wrote:
I took your advice. I upgraded to CentOS 4.4 and then further upgraded the kernel to the official 2.6.18 kernel.
Try as I might, I have not yet been able to reproduce the problems that caused me stress. I can create multi GB files without a problem. I can move files into and out of the partition without an error. I'm taking this as a good sign. I'm also not seeing any disk access errors in dmesg!
I built an early RHEL 4 (maybe U1, maybe the original release) with a ~12TB raid system. Things were very, very sad with the rhel kernel, but updating to the then-current kernel made things much, much better.
I also, if i recall correctly, needed to get the most recent XFS tools, but I had to do that anyway since redhat doesn't support XFS.
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