Geoff Steckel [g...@oat.com] wrote: > I didn't follow the thread all the way back, so forgive me if this has > been covered. I'm betting that the disk subsystem & RAID controller > combination are choking on queued metadata writes. Some of the questions > are aimed at the user, and some at people who know the system code. >
dd is being used to write zeros to a single file, so metadata updates are not an issue