Re: 2.6.8-rc1: Possible SCSI-related problem on dual Opteron w/ NUMA

[Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>]

> I had this problem again this morning.  I was unpacking the kernel tarball to 
> /dev/sda8 and it went south (the tarball had been partially unpacked before 
> the partition was remounted r-o).  Then, I got back to 2.6.7 and ran fsck - 
> now it found some errors (obviously) and fixed them.  Next (on 2.6.7), I 
> unpacked the kernel to /dev/sda8 (again) and compiled the 2.6.8-rc2.  I ran 
> it, unpacked the kernel to /dev/sda8 (again) and compiled it - everything 
> worked.  Then, I applied your patch on top of the newly created 2.6.8-rc2 
> tree and compiled the kernel.  After installing and running it I tried to 
> unpack the kernel to /dev/sda8 (again) and it went south, so I got back to 
> the "plain" 2.6.8-rc2, ran fsck and fixed the partition, unpacked the kernel 
> to /dev/sda8 - and it all worked.
> 
> So, it seems, there's something in your patch that causes this misbehavior.

In which patch eactly? x86_64-2.6.8rc1-1 or x86_64-2.6.8rc1-2 ? 

If it started with -2 can you check if -1 has the problem too?

-Andi