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SubjectRe: 2.2.2 two major problems
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> Linus (and all CD creators) -- please do NOT make 2.2.2 the CDROM release
> version!!!
>
> #1 - Had to rebuild a RAID array 3x8G raid5 set. mke2fs causes entire
> operating system to hang due to "out of memory" condition (I've got 128Meg
> in the machine). Looks like the attempted fixes in inode.c are not
> successful yet in flushing the buffers. Got it to finally work by reducing
> the RAID to 3x6G, and using 16384 for the bytes-per-inode -- this could've
> been a show stopper (my RAID had failed).

Did you try to use 2kB blocks for mke2fs ? IMHO, it should help.


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