[DRBD-user] Kernel 2.6.17-rc5 under amd64 may be hanging I/O, [Was] Re: [Q] What would cause fsck running on a drbd device to just stop?

Lars Ellenberg Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com
Fri Jun 9 11:42:45 CEST 2006

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/ 2006-06-08 20:34:10 -0400
\ Maurice Volaski:
> It appears that kernel 2.6.17-rc5 under amd64 may be hanging I/O
> processes spontaneously at random.
> 
> Our setup here uses drbd (ver. 0.7.19), which is a network RAID kernel
> module, and initially I was fscking (ext3) filesystems, which are on
> drbd devices, and the fsck just stopped spontaneously on the two of
> them.
> 
> Today, I tried copying a directory on the command line with cp -a on
> this computer (on a drbd-managed device) and then in mid-copy I tried
> to abort the process with control-C. It did not abort. I tried killing
> it with kill and then with kill -9. It turns out that the process had
> died, but is still left in ps.
> 
> Just by happenstance,
> 
> Anyway, I tried bringing down the peer and bringing it back up and it
> stalled.
> 
> I also had an emerge sync (i.e., the Gentoo update mechanism) going
> and it too got stuck, but it doesn't, or at least shouldn't affect
> drbd disks, implying this is not a drbd bug, but a kernel bug.
> 

well. it says below that emerge hangs is drbd_al_begin_io, so it is at
least drbd related, too.

> >* what are the numbers in /proc/drbd
> 
> This is how it appears long after the copy hang and I stopped and just
> restarted drbd on the peer. The output from then hanging computer:

thanks, that might help in debugging things.
I'll have a look, maybe I can find something in there.

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