Jens Axboe schrieb:
> On Mon, Dec 06 2004, Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>this one crapped out on me, while having heavy disk activity. (updating 
>> gentoo portage tree - rebuilding metadata of it). Unfortunately I 
>>couldn't save the oops, as I had no hd access anymore and X would freeze 
>>a little later...(and I don't want to risk my data a second time...)
> 
> 
> Did you save anything at all? Just the function of the EIP would be
> better than nothing.

Nope, sorry. I hoped it would be in the logs, but it seems as new cfq 
went havoc, hd access went dead. And I was a bit too nervous about my 
data so that I didn't write it down by hand...

> Well hard to say anything qualified without an oops :/
> 
> I'll try with PREEMPT here.

If you are not able to reproduce, I will try it again on a spare 
partition... Should access to zip drive stil be possible if hd's 
io-scheduler is dead?

Prakash