Neil Brown wrote: > On Monday December 11, jikos@xxxxxxxx wrote: >> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Neil Brown wrote: >> >>>> this nash thing is exactly the command which triggers a bit different >>>> oops in my case. On my side, the oops is fully reproducible. If you >>>> manage to make your case also reproducible, could you please try to >>>> revert md-change-lifetime-rules-for-md-devices.patch? This made the >>>> oops vanish in my case. I think Neil is working on it. >>> Trying to work on it - not making a lot of progress. I find it hard to >>> see how anything in md can cause the inode for a block-device file to >>> disappear... It is a bit of a long-shot, but this patch might change >>> things. It changes the order in which things are de-allocated. Jiri and >>> Jiri: would either of both of you see if you can reproduce the bug with >>> this patch on 2.6.19-rc6-mm2 ??? >> Hi Neil, >> >> sorry to say that, but it's still there after applying your patch. > > Not a big surprise, but thanks a lot for testing. I think I'm going > to have to try harder to duplicate it myself. Away from that machine now, so that I can't test anything till thursday. > If I remember rightly you are using FC - which version exactly? (I've > never installed FC before so this is going to be learning experience). FC6 with latest updates. > And you have no MD arrays at all - is that correct? I do have. md1 md2 md3 -- raid0, 1, 0. But there is no md0 (removed in the past) and 'raidautorun /dev/md0 | nash' causes the troubles. > And you compile your own kernel. Is it monolithic, or are you using > modules? Do you boot with an initrd or just the kernel? Yup. Monolithic as much as possible (md is in the kernel and so dm is). / on the lvm2 on the /dev/md1 with no initrd. All are sata disks, so sd_mod, sata_promise and ata_piix are in the kernel. > I'd like to duplicate your installation as closely as possible, so any > relevant details or recipes would be greatly appreciated. Hm, I have never seen FC6 installation process, so I can't say what special option I have turned on -- it's 'yum upgrade'd from FC5, FC4... regards, -- http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/ Jiri Slaby faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz e-mail: jirislaby gmail com, gpg pubkey fingerprint: B674 9967 0407 CE62 ACC8 22A0 32CC 55C3 39D4 7A7E - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
