Another side problem I have observed about this:
Processes that call sync() get stuck into D state, for example shutdown.
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On 11 Oct 2004, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 04:50, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > It's not, it clearly looks like SCSI trying to kill off the queue
> > with pending commands.
>
> That's what it looks like to me too ... there should be a fix for this
> in the scsi-misc-2.6 tree.
There a
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 06:10:26PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Pedro Larroy wrote:
> >I've been observing this bug in other kernel versions and other hardware
> >configurations, so I think it's easily reproductible.
> >
> >Happens when I/O error on external ide <-> usb drives. Can be reproduced
> >
On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 04:50, Jens Axboe wrote:
> It's not, it clearly looks like SCSI trying to kill off the queue
> with pending commands.
That's what it looks like to me too ... there should be a fix for this
in the scsi-misc-2.6 tree.
James
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On Mon, Oct 11 2004, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Pedro Larroy wrote:
> >I've been observing this bug in other kernel versions and other hardware
> >configurations, so I think it's easily reproductible.
> >
> >Happens when I/O error on external ide <-> usb drives. Can be reproduced
> >by unplugging the usb
Pedro Larroy wrote:
I've been observing this bug in other kernel versions and other hardware
configurations, so I think it's easily reproductible.
Happens when I/O error on external ide <-> usb drives. Can be reproduced
by unplugging the usb cable while accessing the drive, or with a faulty
drive.
