Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270884AbTGVWAa (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2003 18:00:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270898AbTGVWAa (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2003 18:00:30 -0400 Received: from adsl-63-194-239-202.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net ([63.194.239.202]:30482 "EHLO mmp-linux.matchmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270884AbTGVWA3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2003 18:00:29 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:15:33 -0700 From: Mike Fedyk To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: different behaviour with badblocks on 2.6.0-test1-mm1-07int Message-ID: <20030722221533.GF1176@matchmail.com> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030722214253.GD1176@matchmail.com> <20030722214557.GE1176@matchmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030722214557.GE1176@matchmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1435 Lines: 36 On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 02:45:57PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 02:42:53PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was testing a hard drive with badblocks (from the e2fsprogs-1.34) on the > > 2.6.0-test1-mm1-07int (with Con's scheduler patch), and I noticed in vmstat > > and gkrellm that during the write passes there are reads on the same drive > > when there should only be writes. > > > > I tried stracing badblocks, but all it showed was write() calls, and vmstat > > and gkrellm showed reads only, so it modified the behaviour. > > > > Has anyone else seen this? > > > > ii e2fsprogs 1.33+1.34-WIP-2003.05 The EXT2 file system > > utilities and libraries > > > > Oh, and testing with the same hardware and userspace on 2.4.22-pre7 shows > normal behaviour (writes with no reading, reads with no writing). > > This is with "badblocks -wso /tmp/hde.out /dev/hde > /dev/hde.log 2>&1 &" on > a bash prompt on both kernels. > > Neither found any bad blocks, and /tmp is on a /dev/hda1 > This is also being reported against e2fsprogs in debian to get more eyes on it. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=202008 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/