Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751259AbWA0Ox2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:53:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751468AbWA0Ox2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:53:28 -0500 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:37310 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751259AbWA0Ox1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:53:27 -0500 Message-ID: <43DA33D9.5080701@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:53:13 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ed Tomlinson CC: "Barry K. Nathan" , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-dev@namesys.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rc1-mm2 References: <20060120031555.7b6d65b7.akpm@osdl.org> <986ed62e0601211045p4a61a7c2v91d401af86f50d6@mail.gmail.com> <200601211636.24693.edt@aei.ca> <200601230739.45525.edt@aei.ca> In-Reply-To: <200601230739.45525.edt@aei.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.1 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "srv2.dvmed.net", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content preview: Ed Tomlinson wrote: > Summarizing all this. There are two problems here. > > 1. reserifs4 panics when it gets io errors - I remember this was an issue that > needed to be fixed in the R4 code before it moves to mainline... > > 2. Why does a drive which is fine with 2.6.15-rc5-mm3, return a -5 with 2.6.16-mm3 > and above? Smart reports no problems with the drive hardware. What has changed > in the libata/scsi stacks? [...] Content analysis details: (0.1 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.1 RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL RBL: SORBS: sent directly from dynamic IP address [69.134.188.146 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 927 Lines: 26 Ed Tomlinson wrote: > Summarizing all this. There are two problems here. > > 1. reserifs4 panics when it gets io errors - I remember this was an issue that > needed to be fixed in the R4 code before it moves to mainline... > > 2. Why does a drive which is fine with 2.6.15-rc5-mm3, return a -5 with 2.6.16-mm3 > and above? Smart reports no problems with the drive hardware. What has changed > in the libata/scsi stacks? That's a long answer. Could you assist in narrowing down the versions which are affected? It would also be useful if you could try vanilla kernels, and help us discover whether problems surfaces in 2.6.15, 2.6.15-git[1234], 2.6.16-rc1, etc. Jeff - 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/