Am Montag, 3. Dezember 2007 04:00 schrieb Neil Brown: > On Monday December 3, wolfgang.walter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Hello, > > > > with kernel 2.6.22.10 checking a raid1 or rebuilding ist does not work on > > one of our machines. After a short time the rebuild/check does not make > > progress any more . Processes which then access the filesystems on those > > raids are blocked. > > > > Nothing gets logged. Access to other filesystems works fine. > > > > If we boot 2.6.17.10 (the kernel we used befor upgrading to 2.6.22) the > > raids the check/rebuild is done without any problems. > > Sounds like a driver problem. > Your symptoms are completely consistent with a request being submitted > to the underlying device, and that request never completing. > > What controller runs your drives for you. You should probably report > the problem to the relevant maintainer. 3ware Inc 9xxx-series SATA-RAID. There are no problems with normal operation. And when those raids stop to work all other disks on the same controller still work. And I don't see problems when reading from several disk in parallel. But this doesn't mean its not the driver, of course. > > Do you compile your own kernels? Yes. > Would you be comfortable using "git > bisect" to narrow down exactly which change breaks things? It should > take more than a dozen or so tests. Yes. Its a little bit difficult as I can only test kernels in the night and on weekend. First I have to see how to use git to get the repository and how to do git bisect. > > NeilBrown Thanks and regards, -- Wolfgang Walter Studentenwerk München Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts - 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
