easily reproducible filesystem crash on rebuilding array

Emmanuel Florac eflorac at intellique.com
Tue Dec 16 05:38:58 CST 2014


Le Mon, 15 Dec 2014 23:56:05 -0800
Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org> écrivait:

> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 07:10:36AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > The controller is broken if it's returning EIO to reads when it
> > is busy.
> 
> What controller is this? 

ASR-71685, but the problem occured several times with various ASR-7xx5
controllers and different firmware and drivers. 

> SCSI devices can return a QUEUE BUSY
> indicator, so having a RAID controller do something similar doesn't
> sound unusual.  But the driver needs to returns translate that into
> a QUEUE BUSY so that the SCSI midlayer can handle it correctly.
> 
> It might make sense to take this to linux-scsi with the driver
> maintainer in Cc.

The driver would be either aacraid or sd, then?

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