Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:34:18 -0400 | Subject | Re: Possible mptsas regression post 3.5.0 | From | John Drescher <> |
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On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 1:34 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm@gmail.com> wrote: > Over the last few weeks I have done some reliability testing with > mdraid6 on a machine with 2 lsi mptsas controllers and 13 SATA I > drives. My testing involved physically hot removing a drive forcing > the raid to grab a spare and rebuild. This worked great for the 5 or > so times I did this on gentoo-sources-3.5.0 and lower. However any > attempt to do this on gentoo-sources-3.5.1 or even the 3.6-rc2 git > resulted in a total lockup of the array. I originally thought this was > a mdadm regression and posted about that last week here: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/17/503 >
I have bisected the kernel a few times now and the problem was introduced between 3.5.0.00007-ged29dbd 3.5.0.00015-g4d9157e
After the raid rebuilds again I will bisect again and see if I can narrow it down to the exact patch.
John
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