On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 11:05 +0800, Zhao, Forrest wrote: > Let me tell you the testing experience in our lab: > 1 we install kernel 2.6.11.2 on a Tiger4 platform, > 2 there're two SCSI disks, one is sda for root fs, the other is sdb for > /mnt > 3 execute "cp -r /usr/src/linux-2.6.11.2 /mnt" > 4 during the process of copying, we surprise-removed sdb > 5 then system become very busy and freezing, even the user can't login > into the system whether locally or remotely > 6 the error output on the screen demonstrates that SCSI mid-layer is > endless retrying the failed I/O requests
Which HBA driver is this? As long as the HBA can recognise the device is missing, the retries should go very fast because it's simply a bounce between the eh thread and the driver. James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
