On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 07:31:11PM +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Ryan Richter wrote: > > To get the backups back, I just ran a recent kernel with > > try_direct_io=0. If there's nothing further for me to test at this > > time, I guess I'll go back to doing that until there's something to try. > > Is that OK? > > I think we'll allow you the luxury of making successful backups for now ;) > > Thanks for all your work on this, I'm sure it's irritating to you that > we haven't found the answer yet. I'm still clueless about it (despite > the excellent clues you've provided). And personally I don't like > asking someone "try this, try that" until I've a pretty good hypothesis > to devise a patch to test out. Still thinking it over. Someone else > may have a better idea of what to try next. The episode where I blew through half the tapes was mostly my fault. I can avoid that in the future while still doing destructive testing, so you don't have to be too reluctant to give me things to test. I just wanted to make sure there was no further utility in getting oopses from Linus's patch. And try_direct_io=0 works just fine, and doesn't seem to have any performance impact or anything, so at this point I'm not losing any sleep. Thanks, -ryan - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
