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SubjectRe: 2.6.19-mm1 (md/raid1 randomly drops partitions)
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On Tuesday, 12 December 2006 00:54, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Tuesday December 12, rjw@sisk.pl wrote:
> > On Monday, 11 December 2006 23:52, Neil Brown wrote:
> > > On Monday December 11, rjw@sisk.pl wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > On Monday, 11 December 2006 09:58, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Temporarily at
> > > > >
> > > > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.19-mm1/
> > > > >
> > > > > Will appear later at
> > > > >
> > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19/2.6.19-mm1/
> > > >
> > > > It caused all of the md RAID1s on my test box to drop one of their partitions,
> > > > apparently at random.
> > >
> > > That's clever....
> > >
> > > Do you have any kernel logs of this happening? My guess would be the
> > > underlying device driver is returned more errors than before, but we
> > > need the logs to be sure.
> >
> > I've only found lots of messages like this:
> >
> > md: super_written gets error=-5, uptodate=0
>
> So when md writes to write out the superblock, to gets EIO... Odd that
> you aren't getting errors for normal writes.
>
> What devices are the md/raid1 built on?

Sata drives, on sata_uli.

> >
> > I'll try to reproduce it tomorrow and collect some more information.
>
> Thanks. More information is definitely better than less, so send over
> anything you can find.

Okay, seems to be readily reproducible, dmesg output from the failing kernel
attached.

Greetings,
Rafael


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