From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Unstableness in grant table block drivers Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 20:18:13 -0500 Message-ID: <1113441492.13301.9.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org We've experienced a lot of problems in the new grant table-based block drivers. It's exposing itself in a number of ways. I've seen it stop working after working for a bit, sometimes XenU stops half-way through boot, and on one system init panics because it can't find a root filesystem. Grant table block drivers are now the default config option in xen-unstable even though it's marked as experimental. Perhaps it should not be default until it gets a bit more stable? I know the last week's been really busy, but in the future, it would be nice if a big destabilizing change like this could get announced on xen-devel so we could be on the look out for these sort of bugs. Thanks, -- Anthony Liguori Linux Technology Center (LTC) - IBM Austin E-mail: aliguori@us.ibm.com Phone: (512) 838-1208