On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 04:19:24PM -0400, Alan Kasindorf wrote: > > >I've had problems like this happen to me on 3par too. What kernel version > > However, I'd like to know what the exact issue is. I'm not exactly great > on eliciting issues with the linux kernel right now. How were you > monitoring what events the SAN was sending up through the card? I could > use this to at least verify what is happening if/when we lose another > mount. None of our servers were being rebooted when this happened though. > My issue was that I was getting I/O errors when other systems were rebooted (and occasionally other times, reboots consistently would cause a problem), and those I/O errors would cause the mount to drop. Somehow I got the idea that turning off failfast might help and it did. I have not monitored what events the SAN was sending the card, all I did was turn on debugging in the qla2xxx drivers and ask Andrew Vasquez (qlogic developer) about them. Andy
