From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: CoolCold Subject: Re: Deadlock in md barrier code? / RAID1 / LVM CoW snapshot + ext3 / Debian 5.0 - lenny 2.6.26 kernel Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:00:49 +0400 Message-ID: References: <4C938103.1010304@seoss.co.uk> <20100918085925.5fee83ee@notabene> <4C97BD21.1040405@seoss.co.uk> <4C991D61.1040400@seoss.co.uk> <20100922083039.283ccdfd@notabene> <4CB46B75.8050205@seoss.co.uk> <4CB57302.4080409@seoss.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4CB57302.4080409@seoss.co.uk> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Tim Small Cc: "linux-raid@vger.kernel.org" List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Tim Small wrote: > Hi, > > On 12/10/10 17:48, CoolCold wrote: >> >> Just in case you don't know 2.6.26 branch is "frozen, not maintained= " >> - http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/kernel/2.6.26/2.6.26-gogol.1 >> > > Yep, but that's by OpenVZ, I'm using the Debian kernel, and 2.6.26 is= Debian > stable, and so supported by the Debian kernel team.... well..at least it should > >> The only stable for now is 2.6.18& =A02.6.9 , any other is >> outdated/testing http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/kernel . Ongoin sta= rt >> is 2.6.32 as being new RHEL6 kernel. So i'd suggest you to go down t= o >> .18 or take .32 from backports. >> > > Once RHEL6 and/or Debian6.0 has been out for a few months, I'll proba= bly > switch to 2.6.32, but I don't feel sufficiently confident to do that = yet > (not for OpenVZ boxes anyway - OpenVZ+2.6.32 just hasn't had enough > testing-time yet for production IMO) - I also look after plenty of > non-openvz 2.6.26 Debian 5.0 boxes, and if this bug is md+lvm+ext3 (w= hich in > my semi-educated opinion looks most likely, partly because there have= been > some similar looking deadlocks reported on non-OpenVZ Debian 5.0 syst= ems), > then it'd be preferable to track-down the cause of this and get it fi= xed.... I got your point, good luck! As for me, i've switched to 2.6.32 from backports, but still has 2.6.18 on openvz boxes. > > Cheers, > > Tim. > > -- > South East Open Source Solutions Limited > Registered in England and Wales with company number 06134732. > Registered Office: 2 Powell Gardens, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 1TQ > VAT number: 900 6633 53 =A0http://seoss.co.uk/ +44-(0)1273-808309 > > --=20 Best regards, [COOLCOLD-RIPN] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html