From: Mike McCarthy <mike@w1nr.net>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Michael Bussmann <bus@mb-net.net>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Software RAID1 deadlock in 2.6.25 kernels
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:00:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <486A6291.20207@w1nr.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <486A4E7B.50604@tmr.com>
Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Mike McCarthy wrote:
>> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>>
>>> Wonder if hardware or software is happening, sounds like an
>>> mishandled hardware error, but I'm guessing. I have a server with
>>> RAID1 and Fedora 2.6.22.14-72.fc6PAE kernel, up 72 days, no problems.
>>>
>>
>> 2.6.22 is running fine. The problems are in the 2.6.25 kernel (FC9
>> and SUSE 11.0)
>
> Given heavy 2.6.25 use, my guess is still that the root cause of this
> is hardware, and that the change in disk code either triggers the
> hardware problem, or handles it differently. Are you by any chance
> running NCQ on your system?
>
No. This system and the drives pre-date NCQ. I think NCQ is only
implemented in SATA and these are IDE drives. Sometime over the
weekend, I am going to reload SUSE 11 and try to do some more debugging.
BTW: It's back to 10.3 (kernel 2.6.22) running happily with a VMware
server thrashing away at the disks.
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-01 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <48650567.3000501@w1nr.net>
2008-06-27 20:47 ` Software RAID1 deadlock in 2.6.25 kernels Neil Brown
2008-06-30 9:23 ` Gabor Gombas
2008-06-30 11:31 ` Mike McCarthy
2008-06-30 11:59 ` Michael Bussmann
2008-06-30 13:32 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-06-30 13:49 ` Mike McCarthy
2008-06-30 13:56 ` Justin Piszcz
2008-06-30 20:21 ` Richard Scobie
2008-06-30 20:19 ` michael
2008-07-01 19:00 ` David Rees
2008-07-01 15:34 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-07-01 17:00 ` Mike McCarthy [this message]
2008-07-01 19:45 ` Michael Bussmann
2008-07-02 10:37 ` Gabor Gombas
2008-07-02 10:50 ` Gabor Gombas
2008-07-07 16:07 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-07-07 18:11 ` Mike McCarthy
2008-07-08 3:24 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-07-01 20:21 David Lethe
2008-07-01 21:24 ` michael
2008-07-01 21:42 ` David Rees
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