Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272257AbTG3W5m (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2003 18:57:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272320AbTG3W4U (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2003 18:56:20 -0400 Received: from dm7-80.slc.aros.net ([66.219.221.80]:55212 "EHLO cyprus") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272318AbTG3Wzi (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2003 18:55:38 -0400 Message-ID: <3F284CE6.6080701@aros.net> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:55:34 -0600 From: Lou Langholtz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton Cc: Mike Galbraith , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test2+ext3+dbench=Buffer I/O error References: <5.2.1.1.2.20030730163933.00b41b50@wen-online.de> <20030730150902.5281f72c.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20030730150902.5281f72c.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1214 Lines: 37 Andrew Morton wrote: >Mike Galbraith wrote: > > >>Greetings, >> >>While trying to duplicate Randy Hron's "dbench has intermittent hang on >>2.6.0-test1-ac2" report, I received quite a few "Buffer I/O error on >>/dev/hda8, logical block N" messages. (changing elevators makes no >>difference fwiw). >> >> > >That's just a gremlinlet. You can delete the offending printk for now. > > > >>I went back to test1, and it spat up a couple of "buffer >>layer error" messages and associated traces. Attempting to umount >>afterward to run fsck left umount in D state. See attachment. >> >> > >Well that's a worry. Is it repeatable? . . . > Any chance this problem is a consequence of not yet having Sean Estabrooks partial bvec patch in this person's kernel??? . Jens said he applied it on 2003/7/27 so it doesn't seem like this could have made it into 2.6.0-test1-ac2. - 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/