softdep_move_dependencies panic
Leubner, Achim
Achim_Leubner at adaptec.com
Wed May 13 13:53:07 UTC 2009
Thanks for the information. But could you please explain this workaround in detail? If I understand you correctly I should not remove the device with device_delete_child(). But how should I indicate that it has failed? And how can I complete the i/o with good status although the i/o did not work?
Thanks,
Achim
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Long [mailto:scottl at samsco.org]
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 6:56 PM
To: Leubner, Achim
Cc: Ed Maste; current at freebsd.org; Sridaran, Gana
Subject: Re: softdep_move_dependencies panic
No, there is no fix for this. FreeBSD doesn't handle this case very
well. What I would suggest doing is keeping the logical representation
of the device around, but indicate that it has failed. Then complete
all i/o with good status. This is something that is being worked on,
but I have no information on when it might be fixed.
Scott
Leubner, Achim wrote:
> Hi Ed, Hi Scott,
>
>
>
> We run into a problem if a RAID array goes into an "error" state and is
> marked "offline". The new aac driver removes the device in this case
> with device_delete_child() and all commands to that device will be
> answered using biodone() with flag BIO_ERROR and error EINVAL. But this
> causes a "softdep_move_dependencies: need merge code" panic in the
> filesystem. Is there any possibility to avoid this panic? We see it
> under FreeBSD 7.1 too.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Achim
>
>
>
> ===========================
>
> Achim Leubner
>
> Software Engineer / RAID drivers
>
> ICP vortex GmbH / Adaptec Inc.
>
> Phone: +49-351-8718291
>
>
>
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