Re: [SSI-users] hangs on write()

[John B. <joh...@hp...>]

Andy Phillips wrote:
> Following on;
> 
>   It appears that if I remount the file system with the 
> "sync" option then this problem goes away. But performance
> is bad. Shutting down the other node in the cluster does 
> not seem to affect this at all.
> 
>   Would SSI or the CFS cause issues with async i/o? Would
> that follow a different path to a normal kernel?
> 
>   Andy
> 

There can certainly be bugs and I do note that your hanging is rather 
large. Maybe that is the cause of the problem. Maybe you could make a 
simple test case with 256k writes and see if that hangs.

John