2012/4/21 NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>: > On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:18:58 +0200 Paweł Brodacki > <pawel.brodacki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > "For what, we ask, is life - without a touch of poetry in it". > > Maybe not an entirely relevant quote, but it is the first that came to mind. > > "What's life without whimsy?" > > Would be a slightly more modern quote. > > Can you place them without google's help? I pledge ignorance in both cases. After employing Google I can say, that 1) Arthur Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert. kinda ring the bell, but no, I wouldn't guess. 2) I was dimly aware of existence of character of dr S. Cooper, but at no point did I memorise his words. >> Neil, could you point us to a bug report which inspired you to write >> this patch? My google fu failed me and I was able to find just one bug >> entry from before 2 yerars, and even that hit is of dubious relevance. >> >> Pretty please with sugar on top? >> > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=713148 > > But that is against our "enterprise" product so is not globally visible :-( > > But it gave me some search-term hints so: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2011/05/msg00264.html > > http://www.issociate.de/board/post/491554/Kernel_BUG.html > > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/xen/devel/174884?do=post_view_threaded > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/24/414 > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.raid/20710 > > The important elements are: > 1/ you see "md: stopping all devices". This means that "reboot" has > really started. This is printed by mds reboot notifier. > > 2/ A stack trace showing something submitting IO. > In the first link it is bdi_writeback_task > In the second it is kjournald > Amazingly enough, this is about what I found via google. Our perception of "recent kernel" differs, though. Serves me well for reading too much of linux-btrfs ;). > This pattern can only happen on an unclean shutdown. > > NeilBrown > Thanks a lot for a clear, definitive and catharsis-bringing reply. Kind regards, Pawe Brodacki -- 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
