ATA FLUSHCACHE
Daniel O'Connor
doconnor at gsoft.com.au
Tue Apr 24 06:47:11 UTC 2007
On Tuesday 24 April 2007 14:44, William Josephson wrote:
> I've recently installed -CURRENT on a new machine after the
> LCD in my old one died. I now have ZFS running as the root
> filesystem. The result is very pleasant if a little slow,
> although that may be my disk. I have noticed a fair number
> of messages of the form ``ATA - FLUSHCACHE timed out'' while
> running with ZFS. Is this expected behavior when running on
> the bare metal?
I see this when using gjournal too.
I suspect the timeout on the flush cache command needs to be increased.
I haven't got around to testing it but you could try increasing the
timeout in ata-disk.c (around line 280) ->
case BIO_FLUSH:
request->u.ata.lba = 0;
request->u.ata.count = 0;
request->u.ata.feature = 0;
request->bytecount = 0;
request->transfersize = 0;
request->timeout = 1;
request->retries = 0;
request->flags = ATA_R_CONTROL;
request->u.ata.command = ATA_FLUSHCACHE;
break;
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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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