Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263913AbTICRiH (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 13:38:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264005AbTICRiE (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 13:38:04 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:58809 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263913AbTICRhb (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 13:37:31 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 10:20:42 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Dave Olien Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, maryedie@osdl.org Subject: Re: FYI: dbt testing on 2.6.0-test4-mm4 fails Message-Id: <20030903102042.52020776.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20030903170716.GA23487@osdl.org> References: <20030903170716.GA23487@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 755 Lines: 20 Dave Olien wrote: > > I'm just mailing you this to keep you informed, Daniel McNeil and > I are investigating a failure of the dbt database workload test on > 2.6.0-test4-mm4. hmm, the direct-io code hasn't changed significantly since February(!). Which filesystem are you using? One possibility is that some lower-level error occured in the filesystem or the device driver but the error code was not correctly propagated back. Could you sprinkle error-path printk's in the direct-io code? - 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/