On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 10:13 -0600, Michael Loftis wrote: > --On August 26, 2005 3:26:26 PM +0200 Fredrik Tolf <fredrik@dolda2000.com> > wrote: > > I've got a related question as well, but it's not really LVM-related. > > The thing is that there's something strange with either the IDE chipset > > (a Promise card) or the corresponding driver that this disk is connected > > to, which causes a kernel panic every time a read from a bad sector is > > attempted. I figure I can "fix" that by connecting the drives to a > > different computer while pvmoving, but I wouldn't prefer to do that, as > > it causes downtime. Does someone on the list know of this problem and > > how to work around it? I figure that I can attempt to fix the driver > > bug, but I wouldn't prefer to experiment with that system... > > Actually, if you're having PV errors, it might be the filesystem driver > that's panic-ing....you'll need to run the output through ksymoops and find > out where it's dieieng. If you've corrupted filesystem data, that's the > much more likely target (although what you're hypothesizing isn't > impossible, I've just never seen that). Thanks for the tip, but the panic message gave enough info for me to conclude that it's a NULL pointer dereference in ide_timer_expiry. Unfortunately, I hadn't compiled the kernel with debugging support, however, so it's hard for me to determine just where in ide_timer_expiry at this point. Fredrik Tolf _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
