problem with scsi/2.4.2 kernel : help

2001-05-02 Thread hiren_mehta
Hi List, I am running a couple of dd processes on the scsi drives on ia64 running 2.4.2 kernel. e.g. while [ 1 ]; do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=1024 count=2500 done & while [ 1 ] ; do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb2 bs=1024 count=2500 done & while [ 1 ] ; do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb

aix7xxx oops

2001-05-02 Thread Dinko Korunic
I am sending you oops from my freshly compiled 2.4.4 that crashes every time when initialising Adaptec 2940UW BIOS-less ctrl: ksymoops 2.4.1 on i686 2.4.4. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.4.4/ (default) -m /

Re: Linux Cluster using shared scsi

2001-05-02 Thread Doug Ledford
"Eric Z. Ayers" wrote: > > Doug Ledford writes: > (James Bottomley commented about the need for SCSI reservation kernel patches) > > > > I agree. It's something that needs fixed in general, your software needs it > > as well, and I've written (about 80% done at this point) some open source >

Re: Linux Cluster using shared scsi

2001-05-02 Thread Eddie Williams
Hi Doug, Great to hear your progress on this. As I had not heard anything about this effort since this time last year I had assumed you put this project on the shelf. I will be happy to test these interfaces when they are ready. Eddie > "Eric Z. Ayers" wrote: > > > > Doug Ledford writes:

Re: Linux Cluster using shared scsi

2001-05-02 Thread Max TenEyck Woodbury
Doug Ledford wrote: > > ... > > If told to hold a reservation, then resend your reservation request once every > 2 seconds (this actually has very minimal CPU/BUS usage and isn't as big a > deal as requesting a reservation every 2 seconds might sound). The first time > the reservation is refuse

Re: Linux Cluster using shared scsi

2001-05-02 Thread Doug Ledford
Max TenEyck Woodbury wrote: > > Doug Ledford wrote: > > > > ... > > > > If told to hold a reservation, then resend your reservation request once every > > 2 seconds (this actually has very minimal CPU/BUS usage and isn't as big a > > deal as requesting a reservation every 2 seconds might sound).

Re: Linux Cluster using shared scsi

2001-05-02 Thread Doug Ledford
Mike Anderson wrote: > > Doug, > > A question on clarification. > > Is the configuration you are testing have both FC adapters going to the same > port of the storage device (mutli-path) or to different ports of the storage > device (mulit-port)? > > The reason I ask is that I thought if you a

Re: Linux Cluster using shared scsi

2001-05-02 Thread Mike Anderson
Doug, A question on clarification. Is the configuration you are testing have both FC adapters going to the same port of the storage device (mutli-path) or to different ports of the storage device (mulit-port)? The reason I ask is that I thought if you are using SCSI-2 reserves that the reserve

Re: Problems even with 512 block size MOs

2001-05-02 Thread Alan Cox
> Copying a 6.5 MByte file with cp returns nearly immediately on the > commandline, but umount nearly takes forever. Maximum rate detected by > xosview during umount was about 30 kByte. > > I have similar behaviour on another machine and with different disk. However > I don't get any "dmesg" outp

Re: Linux Cluster using shared scsi

2001-05-02 Thread Mike Anderson
Doug, I guess I worded my question poorly. My question was around multi-path devices in combination with SCSI-2 reserve vs SCSI-3 persistent reserve which has not always been easy, but is more difficult is you use a name space that can slip or can have multiple entries for the same physical dev

Re: Linux Cluster using shared scsi

2001-05-02 Thread Max TenEyck Woodbury
Doug Ledford wrote: > > Max TenEyck Woodbury wrote: >> >> Umm. Reboot? What do you think this is? Windoze? > > It's the *only* way to guarantee that the drive is never touched by more > than one machine at a time (notice, I've not been talking about a shared > use drive, only one machine in the

Re: Linux Cluster using shared scsi

2001-05-02 Thread Doug Ledford
Max TenEyck Woodbury wrote: > > Doug Ledford wrote: > > > > Max TenEyck Woodbury wrote: > >> > >> Umm. Reboot? What do you think this is? Windoze? > > > > It's the *only* way to guarantee that the drive is never touched by more > > than one machine at a time (notice, I've not been talking about a

Re: Linux Cluster using shared scsi

2001-05-02 Thread Doug Ledford
Mike Anderson wrote: > > Doug, > > I guess I worded my question poorly. My question was around multi-path > devices in combination with SCSI-2 reserve vs SCSI-3 persistent reserve which > has not always been easy, but is more difficult is you use a name space that > can slip or can have multiple