Re: [RAIDframe] system hangs while manipulating large files

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

imil%home.imil.net@localhost ("Emile `iMil' Heitor") writes:

>$ dd if=/dev/zero of=./test bs=1m count=5000

>withing a couple of seconds, the whole system becomes irresponsive and hangs
>totally but does not panic. I have reproduced this behaviour a couple of times,
>the system hangs everytime.

Does it hang or does it just take an enormously long time (>30min)
to complete the operation?