[DRBD-user] xen, drbd, lvm, kernel oops

[jeremy avnet]

On Nov 1, 2005, at 2:28 PM, Todd Denniston wrote:

> jeremy avnet wrote:
>
>>
>> Regardless of the filesystem (i've used reiserfs, xfs, ext3),
>> whenever I mount a fresh DRBD partition I get some nasty kernel
>> messages.
>>
>> This is under Debian Sarge, Xen kernel 2.6.11.12-xen0 (dom0) using
>> DRBD v0.7.11 (pulled from Debian "testing").
>>
>>
> <SNIP>
> Some time earlier on the list I summarized about some corruption  
> that was
> occuring as:
> Stephan Rattai indicated "The bio_clone bug was introduced in  
> kernel version
> 2.6.11-rc2 ... and fixed in 2.6.12.4" and Lars Ellenberg let us  
> know 'drbd
> uses them [bio clones] all the time'.
>
> do you know for sure that your 2.6.11.12-xen0 has the bio clone fix  
> patch?
> or can you update to something post 2.6.12.4?

I was under the impression the bug was only hit if you were using the  
md driver as well, which I am not. The kernel I am using does *not*  
have this fix. However, I discovered upgrading to v0.7.14 has  
remedied the problem. Does this make sense?

Thanks for your help.
.:. jeremy