Re: mpt2sas logged messages

[Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>]

On 08/20/2009 11:20 AM, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 17:18, Ric Wheeler<rwheeler@redhat.com>  wrote:
>> On 08/19/2009 03:30 PM, Kay Sievers wrote:
>>> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 20:41, Ric Wheeler<rwheeler@redhat.com>    wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think that we can reconfigure the storage to avoid this but will be
>>>> happy
>>>> to restore this configuration if you have something that you want to test
>>>> later on...
>>>
>>> This hopefully addresses the issue:
>>>
>>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/hotplug/udev.git;a=commit;h=2ffc9cc1917b1bb6fe86881a94a47dce9aa15168
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Kay
>>
>> Hi Kay,
>>
>> This seems to resolve the issue on my test rig - no more "too long" error
>> messages during boot.
>
> Great! Thanks a lot for the testing, and letting us know. It's a
> pleasure when things work like this.
>
> Kay

The pleasure is all mine - great to get such rapid fixes :-)

It has been a long time challenge for us to get developers on big systems, 
especially big and complicated storage boxes which is why we decided to try and 
build this box to help us stress scale in every way so we can track down exactly 
this kind of issue in a timely way.

It was not that expensive to build a 100+ TB box - 4 SAS expansion shelves, 60 
2TB S-ATA disks and a couple of HBA's for a reasonable server. It won't be that 
fast, but is much cheaper than buying a similar array from a real vendor...

ric