At 16:16 25-10-2002 -0400, Brian Gulizia wrote:
Wonderful.
xfs_repair cant/wont finish due to the piece of crap array that it is
trying to
repair...which is an Arena Indy 2400. It gets all the way to phase 5 then
a message
flashes on the screen of the raid array that says "cmd buf empty!" which
I'm told by the
manufacturer means that the buffer is full and cant/wont accept any more
commands.
My best guess is that the scsi driver is putting more scatter gather
entries in the queue then the host (arena) can handle.
You can adjust the length of the scsi command queue in the driver. I don't
know if you can change it on the fly, but you can define this during
compile time for some of the scsi adapters.
I don't know if this is because it did so much before phase 5 or if it is
just phase 5 that does it.
I don't suppose there is some way to run the xfs_repair one phase at a time?
I am not sure but I think phase 5 involves lot's of seeking which is
probably causing this.
Making xfs_repair do one phase at a time is not an option.
Cheers
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Seth
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