On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote:

Curious btw what kind of filesystem size/raid type (5, but defaults I assume,
nothing special right? (right-symmetric vs. left-symmetric, etc?)/cache
size/chunk size(s) are you using/testing with?

mdadm --create --level=5 --chunk=64 -n7 -x1 /dev/md2 /dev/sd[a-h]1
mkfs.xfs -f /dev/md2

otherwise defaults

The script you sent out earlier, you are able to reproduce it easily with 31
or so kernel tar decompressions?

not sure, the point of the script is to untar more than there is RAM.  it 
happened with a single rsync running though -- 3.5M indoes from a remote 
box.  it also happens with the single 10GB dd write... although i've been 
using the tar method for testing different kernel revs.

-dean