Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264000AbUDNJGC (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2004 05:06:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263999AbUDNJGC (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2004 05:06:02 -0400 Received: from smtp2.libero.it ([193.70.192.52]:22923 "EHLO smtp2.libero.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263987AbUDNJFy (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2004 05:05:54 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 11:05:47 +0200 From: Domenico Andreoli To: Paul Wagland Cc: Linux mailing list SCSI , Linux mailing list kernel , Hans Reiser , Atul Mukker , reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: reiser4 and megaraid problems with debian 2.6.5 Message-ID: <20040414090547.GB13578@raptus.homelinux.org> Mail-Followup-To: Paul Wagland , Linux mailing list SCSI , Linux mailing list kernel , Hans Reiser , Atul Mukker , reiserfs-list@namesys.com References: <36927C82-8DE0-11D8-A41D-000A95CD704C@wagland.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <36927C82-8DE0-11D8-A41D-000A95CD704C@wagland.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2614 Lines: 64 [ bringing this also on reiserfs ml, a great place for this kind of posts. this is also the reason of the full quoting. sorry ] On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 08:51:53AM +0200, Paul Wagland wrote: > Hi all, hi Paul, > I would like to report on a problem that I am having. I am just testing > out the new megaraid unified driver, and have been doing some baseline > testing with bonnie++. > > My problem is that, although reiserfs, ext2, jfs and xfs all work, > reiser4 fails with the following error: > --- > Can't write block. > Bonnie: drastic I/O error (write(2)): No such file or directory > --- > > I am using the debian prepared kernel with the debian reiser4 patch. I > made a cursory examination of the patch, and it appears to correlate > fairly closely with the patch from the namesys site. of course it is correlated to that of namesys! i have no skills at all to invent reiser4 :)) you forgot to specify version of the patch you are talking about, currently debian provides two versions. anyway i suppose you are talking about version 20040326-2, aren't you? > Given that this works with reiserfs, ext2, jfs and xfs it would appear > to be a reiser4 problem, however ext3 also fails, though with a > different error, it claims that the disk is full, but it is trying to > write a 2 1GB files onto a 2.5GB filesystem, so it should have enough > room, and indeed it did even work two or three times out of about 10 > runs (lots of timing :-). This implies that it might be a megaraid > problem. As you can tell, I really have no idea ;-) > > I will try playing around tonight with an official kernel and the > official reiser4 patch to see if that makes any difference, but would > just like to raise this potential problem sooner rather than later. latest reiser4 snapshot provided a patch which applied cleanly on 2.6.5-rc2 but not to 2.6.5. i had to modify it as suggested on the reiserfs ml. if you look at the debian package's changelog you can find the reference to that thread. > If I can help debug this situation (I am probably the only person > trying this combination :-) please let me know how I should go about > it. i'm sorry but i can't help further. cheers domenico -----[ Domenico Andreoli, aka cavok --[ http://filibusta.crema.unimi.it/~cavok/gpgkey.asc ---[ 3A0F 2F80 F79C 678A 8936 4FEE 0677 9033 A20E BC50 - 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/