Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Apr 2004 08:13:17 -0700 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: reiser4 and megaraid problems with debian 2.6.5 |
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Paul Wagland wrote:
> Hi all, > > I would like to report on a problem that I am having. I am just > testing out the new megaraid unified driver, and have been doing some > baseline testing with bonnie++. > > My problem is that, although reiserfs, ext2, jfs and xfs all work, > reiser4 fails with the following error: > --- > Can't write block. > Bonnie: drastic I/O error (write(2)): No such file or directory > --- > > I am using the debian prepared kernel with the debian reiser4 patch. I > made a cursory examination of the patch, and it appears to correlate > fairly closely with the patch from the namesys site.
In what way does it not correlate?
> > Given that this works with reiserfs, ext2, jfs and xfs it would appear > to be a reiser4 problem, however ext3 also fails, though with a > different error, it claims that the disk is full, but it is trying to > write a 2 1GB files onto a 2.5GB filesystem, so it should have enough > room, and indeed it did even work two or three times out of about 10 > runs (lots of timing :-). This implies that it might be a megaraid > problem. As you can tell, I really have no idea ;-) > > I will try playing around tonight with an official kernel and the > official reiser4 patch to see if that makes any difference, but would > just like to raise this potential problem sooner rather than later. > > If I can help debug this situation (I am probably the only person > trying this combination :-) please let me know how I should go about it. > > Cheers, > Paul
I don't have the hardware to test it, can you get the error without your hardware?
-- Hans
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