[DRBD-user] issue with 2.6.22+ and 0.7.24

Laurent CARON lcaron at lncsa.com
Thu Sep 20 11:39:05 CEST 2007

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:33:01AM +0200, Laurent CARON wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> After reading the thread about XFS, drbd 8.0.5 and 2.6.22+ kernels (XFS 
>> filesystem locks on mounting with 0.8.0.5), i wonder if the same applies 
>> to using 0.7.24 and 2.6.22+.
> 
> basically, yes.
> so either don't use 0.7 with the kernels showing this behaviour,
> or wait for some maintenance release,
> or patch it yourself.
> 
>> "for housekeeping (meta data update), we had a recursive, synchronous,
>> call to generic_make_request in the generic_make_request path.
>> with 2.6.22 and later kernels, this will deadlock :->"
> 

Seems to work fine with latest SVN (for 2 days) so far.

Laurent



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