Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751343AbWJVUKu (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:10:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751344AbWJVUKu (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:10:50 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc14.comcast.net ([204.127.192.84]:3990 "EHLO rwcrmhc14.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751343AbWJVUKt (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:10:49 -0400 Message-ID: <453BD251.1000703@wolfmountaingroup.com> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 14:19:29 -0600 From: "Jeffrey V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Fedora/1.7.8-2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: adam radford CC: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel , linuxraid@amcc.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 3Ware delayed device mounting errors with newer 9500 series adapters References: <453A52CE.80605@wolfmountaingroup.com> <20061021233904.c2f40a5f.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2878 Lines: 93 adam radford wrote: > Jeff, > > Can you reproduce with 2.6.18.1? ES4 contains a custom 3ware driver. We don't use kernels later than 2.6.15 in our shipping releases since they have some issues with stability. > > Also, you have included no error output with this email whatsoever. Can > you go to a virtual console during your ES4 install, run 'dmesg', and > see if > the errors are in there, or if they are a part of the ES4 anaconda > installer? dmesg produces no output since the errors are reflected from init. Errors are typical of an unmounted volume. i.e. "cannot touch /var/lock/subsys/ (dozens of these) Starting System logger (hangs for 15 minutes) So no logs ..... > > /dev/sdb, etc. having delayed appearances sounds like it is udev related. No, I do not believe so. > > Are you running the latest firmware? Do your controllers older than > 60 days > have different firmware? This is the right question. I will collect the various versions this occurs on and post them here. > > I will try to reproduce this. Pretty easy to do. Jeff > > -Adam > > On 10/21/06, Andrew Morton wrote: > >> On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:03:10 -0600 >> "Jeffrey V. Merkey" wrote: >> >> > >> > Adam, >> > >> > We have been getting 3Ware 9500 series adapters in the past 60 days >> > which exhibit a delayed behavior during mounting of FS from >> > /etc/fstab. The adapters older than this do not exhibit this >> behavior. >> > >> > During bootup, if the driver is compiled as a module rather than in >> > kernel, mount points such as /var in fstab fail to detect the devices >> > until the system fully boots, at which point the /dev/sdb etc. devices >> > showup. It happens on both ATA cabled drives and drives >> > cabled with multi-lane controller backplanes. >> > >> > The problem is easy to reproduce. Install ES4, point the /var >> directory >> > during install to one of the array devices in disk druid, and after >> > the install completes, /var/ will not mount during bootup and all >> sorts >> > of errors stream off the screen. I can reproduce the problem >> > with several systems in our labs and upon investigating the adapter >> > revisions, I find that adapters ordered in the past 60 days exhibit >> > the problem. Compiling the driver in kernel gets around the problem, >> > indicating its timing related. >> > >> >> cc's added. >> - >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> > - 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/