[ENBD] fr1 hangs when trying to access raid device..

Arve Emil Myrås enbd@lists.community.tummy.com
Tue, 4 Feb 2003 13:31:39 +0100


Hi,
I'm trying to get the fr1 module working on a dual-athlon system.
My kernel is 2.4.20 with the vserver patch version ctx-16 compiled for athlon cpu with smp.
Everything goes fine until I try to acess the raid device.
I have the fr1 loaded om major 9 and had raid working before i tryed this,
using my old raidtab who looks like: 

# autogenerated /etc/raidtab by YaST2 


raiddev /dev/md0
   raid-level       1
   nr-raid-disks    2
   nr-spare-disks   0
   persistent-superblock 1
   chunk-size       4096 
   device   /dev/sdb1
   raid-disk 0
   device   /dev/sdb2
   raid-disk 1

I can do a "mkraid --really-force /dev/md0" ; and everything looks normal..
But, when i try to "mke2fs  /dev/md0" ewerything just freezes (well not quite; Keyboard, mouse & X hangs; I can still ping the box but ssh-login is impossible) only way out is a hardware reset..

My syslog looks like this form loading the module until "mke2fs":

Feb  4 12:37:18 vserv kernel: fr1 ioctl 800c0910
Feb  4 12:37:18 vserv kernel: klogd 1.4.1, ---------- state change ----------
Feb  4 12:37:18 vserv kernel: Cannot find map file.
Feb  4 12:37:18 vserv kernel: Loaded 563 symbols from 6 modules.
Feb  4 12:37:18 vserv kernel: fr1 ioctl 800c0910
Feb  4 12:37:33 vserv last message repeated 2 times
Feb  4 12:37:38 vserv kernel: fr1 ioctl 40480923
Feb  4 12:37:38 vserv kernel: fr1 ioctl 40140921
Feb  4 12:37:38 vserv kernel: fr1 hotadd component 08:11[0] to device 0
Feb  4 12:37:38 vserv kernel: fr1 added new device 08:11 to f3b62600 with err 0
Feb  4 12:37:38 vserv kernel: fr1 ioctl 40140921
Feb  4 12:37:38 vserv kernel: fr1 hotadd component 08:12[1] to device 0
Feb  4 12:37:38 vserv kernel: fr1 added new device 08:12 to f3b62600 with err 0
Feb  4 12:37:38 vserv kernel: fr1 ioctl 400c0930
Feb  4 12:57:26 vserv syslogd 1.4.1: restart.

Hope someone could help me out of this deadlock...
If you need any more info just ask...

-Arve Emil Myrås