[2771] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: 2.0.x SCSI leaking memory? (was Re: Problems making big fs on DPT RAID)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Neuffer)
Fri Nov 7 03:07:04 1997
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 08:59:39 +0100 (CET)
From: Michael Neuffer <neuffer@trudi.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE>
Reply-To: neuffer@trudi.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
cc: Chris Adams <cadams@ro.com>, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu,
linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-eata@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de
In-Reply-To: <199711070259.VAA17855@dcl.MIT.EDU>
On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> The problem does not seem to be the size of the filesystem (I think that
> just shows the problem worse). I have 8 drives attached to the DPT: 7
> in a RAID 0 array and one by itself with the OS/swap/software.
>
> Did you say that you're seeing the problem even when you're accessing
> the one disk that's by itself?
>
> Is the RAID 0 array being done using the md device, or using hardware
> support? (Is that something the DPT card does? I'm not a SCSI jock, so
> I'm not really familiar with the various SCSI controllers out there....)
Yes, he is not using MD. The DPT does the hardware RAID transparently to
everything but the lowlevel driver.
Mike
Windows NT: n.
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operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written
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