From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: David Rees <dbr@greenhydrant.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
ext3-users@redhat.com
Subject: Re: kupdated, bdflush and kjournald stuck in D state on RAID1 device (deadlock?)
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 15:48:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B8D712C.1441BC5A@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010829131720.A20537@greenhydrant.com> <3B8D54F3.46DC2ABB@zip.com.au>, <3B8D54F3.46DC2ABB@zip.com.au>; <20010829141451.A20968@greenhydrant.com> <3B8D60CF.A1400171@zip.com.au>, <3B8D60CF.A1400171@zip.com.au>; <20010829144016.C20968@greenhydrant.com> <3B8D6BF9.BFFC4505@zip.com.au>, <3B8D6BF9.BFFC4505@zip.com.au>; from akpm@zip.com.au on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 03:26:01PM -0700 <20010829153818.B21590@greenhydrant.com>
David Rees wrote:
>
> ...
>
> The machine was and is still working mostly ok. Since I typed "umount /opt",
> the opt directory doesn't show any contents any more, but before that things
> appear OK. I can still use fdisk to look at the partition layout of the
> drives in /opt raid1 array. /proc/mdstat is normal.
>
> There are no other software raid devices on the machine (/ is also ext3 on a
> separate drive/controller). There are no suspicious messages printed from
> dmesg, either.
>
Are you able to access all the underlying devices on the array?
For example, if /dev/md0 consists of /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdb2,
can you run 'cp /dev/hda1 /dev/null' and 'cp /dev/hdb1 /dev/null'?
If so, then I'm all out of ideas. Your raid1 buffers have disappeared
into thin air :(
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-29 22:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-29 20:17 kupdated, bdflush and kjournald stuck in D state on RAID1 device (deadlock?) David Rees
2001-08-29 20:47 ` Andrew Morton
2001-08-29 21:14 ` David Rees
2001-08-29 21:38 ` Andrew Morton
2001-08-29 21:40 ` David Rees
2001-08-29 22:26 ` Andrew Morton
2001-08-29 22:38 ` David Rees
2001-08-29 22:48 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2001-08-29 22:56 ` David Rees
2001-08-30 0:39 ` Neil Brown
2001-08-30 0:55 ` David Rees
2001-08-30 1:17 ` Neil Brown
2001-08-30 1:24 ` David Rees
2001-08-30 2:05 ` Neil Brown
2001-08-30 2:50 ` David Rees
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