From: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
rjw@sisk.pl, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [SCSI][REGRESSION][BISECTED] Disk errors loop forever in 2.6.29
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:52:36 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <404514.58700.qm@web110616.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0902191002160.3012-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org
> From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
>
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > There appears to be a regression from 2.6.28 in how disk errors are
> > handled in 2.6.29rc5 - rather than trying and eventually giving up, it
> > appears to try (and report) forever.
>
> See this thread and patch:
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123490148422684&w=2
The patch there (actually I downloaded it from http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/7989/ )
did not make any diference. I fear my disk will soon have torn itself to bits but until then I
can trigger the error at will so I can test any patches that are suggested...
next parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-19 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0902191002160.3012-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
2009-02-19 16:52 ` Sitsofe Wheeler [this message]
2009-02-19 18:41 ` [SCSI][REGRESSION][BISECTED] Disk errors loop forever in 2.6.29 James Bottomley
2009-02-19 21:11 Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-02-19 21:48 ` James Bottomley
2009-02-20 0:54 ` Sitsofe Wheeler
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