Re: 2.6.17-mm5 dislikes raid-1, just like mm4

Andrew Morton
2006-07-02T06:10:00Z

On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 16:43:56 +1200
Reuben Farrelly <reuben-lkml@reub.net> wrote:

>
>
> On 2/07/2006 10:22 a.m., Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 20:14:55 +0200
> > Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no> wrote:
> >
> >> I just got mm5 up, and it has the same problem as mm4.
> >> Raid-1 does not work. I used 2.6.16 to resync my raids,
> >> and booted into 2.6.17-mm5.
> <snip>
> >> As we see, the md devices are assembled, then the filesystems are
> >> mounted and swap turned on. Then all three md devices fail a
> >> partition at the same time. Somehow, I don't believe that
> >> is correct. ;-)
> >>
> >
> > I assume this is still the broken-barriers bug. Thanks for all the help on
> > this, guys. More is to be asked for, I'm afraid.
> >
> > I've prepared a tree which is basically 2.6.17-mm5, only the git-scsi-misc
> > and git-libata-all trees have been omitted. It's at
> >
> > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/2.6.17-mm5-no-sata-scsi.bz2
> >
> > (That's a diff against 2.6.17)
>
> Works.
>
> > If that kernel works, then the next step is to test
> >
> > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/2.6.17-mm5-no-scsi.bz2
> >
> > which is 2.6.17-mm5 without git-scsi-misc, but with git-libata-all.
>
> Works. I'm running it now and it looks to be all fine (including the
> workaround/fix for MSI)
>
> In both cases I rebooted twice with each kernel to be sure it wasn't a one-off.
>
> This then must point to git-scsi-misc being implicated, if not the source.......
>

Yep, everything points to that, thanks.