Re: Still some corruption occurs on my root filesystem

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>]

On Wed, 22 May 2002, Michael Wahlbrink wrote:

> > The only thing here is "normal" log recovery, nothing that should indicate
> > corruption.  I assume that this is after what claims to be a  clean shutdown?
> 
> So I can sleep now without thinking 'bout lost data.... ;-)
> Thanks!

Well... if you shut down your system cleanly, you should not be doing
recovery, so something is still not right (assuming that the messages
you posted were after a normal shutdown).

> > Probably the BLKSETSIZE ioctl, perhaps your raid driver doesn't implement
> > it?  I wonder if this could be part of the problem... at one point it looked
> > like this was harmless. 
> 
> 
> Ok, how to find out?? Should I forward/write something to the ataraid 
> ML?? I'm not a kernel hacker, so I dont have any glue what ioctls are ;-)

Whoops, a couple things.  first, it's "BLKBSZSET" that I was thinking about,
but I don't think you'd see this at boot time in any case.

It would be nice if the ataraid driver printed out _which_ ioctl was
unsupported...  in pdcraid.c you could change the

printk("Invalid ioctl \n");

line to

printk("ataraid: invalid ioctl cmd=%x %lx\n", cmd, arg);

if you wanted to chase this down, although I don't know if it's related
to your problem.

-Eric