Re: mke2fs and kernel VM issues

[Alan Cox]

> case, for example, we saw it with a system that had "only" 256 megs of
> memory, and creating a 72 gigabyte filesystem using a 8x9gb RAID
> configuration.

Ok I've only tested 90Gb on 2.2.19pre3, not more than that

> workaround did fix IBM's problem, which lends credence to the theory
> that the problem is a VM bug related to a lack of sufficient write
> throttling.  

Yep. I think 2.4.1 is about the first kernel that gets this right