From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6 Description of problem: I have created a new logical volume and selected ext3 file system. I saw the mkfs.ext3 process running actively for some time, but now it's idling, and never finishes. I have done this twice, so it is repeatable.. strace -p <pid of mkfs.ext3> gives only this: write(1, "3632/4000", 9 <unfinished ...> Could it be that when making a large file system mkfs hangs because the pipe to system-config-lvm fills up? Doesn't system-config-lvm poll the pipe until the mkfs process finishes? I can mkfs the volume manually without any problems. I am creating a 0.5TB file system on a 1.3TB physical volume. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-lvm-0.9.32-1.0 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create very large volume group (in my case a 1.3TB partition from a raid controller) 2. Create a large logical volume (in my case a 0.5TB partition) 3. Select to have it created with ext3 file system Actual Results: The volume gets created, mkfs.ext3 runs for a while, then idles Expected Results: Should have finished making the file system and mounted it Additional info: This server runs from a raid controller with 4 0.5TB disks in raid5. The raid set is partitioned in /, /var, swap and a large data partition. The data partition is used as the physical volume in lvm.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 167847 ***