On Sun, Jan 14 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 09:05 +1100, Jens Axboe wrote: > > raid seems to have severe problems with the plugging change. I'll try > > and find Neil and have a chat with him, hopefully we can work it out. > > Some hints: > > mount(1899): WRITE block 16424 on md3 > call md_write_start > md3_raid1(438): WRITE block 40965504 on sdb6 > md3_raid1(438): WRITE block 40965504 on sda6 > First Write sector 16424 disks 2 > > Stuck. > > Note, that neither end_buffer_async_write() nor > raid1_end_write_request() are invoked, > > In a previous write invoked by: > fsck.ext3(1896): WRITE block 8552 on sdb1 > end_buffer_async_write() is invoked. > > sdb1 is not a part of a raid device. When I briefly tested this before I left (and found it broken), doing a cat /proc/mdstat got things going again. Hard if that's your rootfs, it's just a hint :-) > Hope that helps, I can reproduce, so that's not a problem. I can't do much about it until I'm back next week, but Neil might be able to help. We shall see. Thanks for testing. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html