Re: Corrupted filesystem with new Firewire stack

[Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>]

Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> writes:
> 
> Stefan> There were some similar reports involving that "status write
> Stefan> for unknown orb".  I haven't found a way to reproduce it; I
> Stefan> noticed it only once in the logs here so far.
> 
> I get those all the time.  Just do heavy ext3 I/O to the drive.
> 
> Happens here on both a G4 and an intel Mini.  Both running FC7.
> 
> Aug 17 08:24:08 mini kernel: firewire_sbp2: status write for unknown orb
> Aug 17 08:25:08 mini kernel: firewire_sbp2: sbp2_scsi_abort
> Aug 17 08:26:36 mini kernel: firewire_sbp2: status write for unknown orb
> Aug 17 08:27:36 mini kernel: firewire_sbp2: sbp2_scsi_abort
> Aug 17 08:33:51 mini kernel: firewire_sbp2: status write for unknown orb
> Aug 17 08:34:51 mini kernel: firewire_sbp2: sbp2_scsi_abort
> 
> Lacie drive in both cases.

I replaced a HDD in my OFXW911 enclosure and am starting tests now.

While backing ~80 GB from its current reiserfs partition up in order to
reformat to ext3, using find | cpio, I got that error 4 times:

Aug 18 13:24:58 stein ReiserFS: sdd1: Using r5 hash to sort names
Aug 18 13:47:41 stein firewire_sbp2: status write for unknown orb
Aug 18 13:48:11 stein firewire_sbp2: sbp2_scsi_abort
Aug 18 14:18:30 stein firewire_sbp2: status write for unknown orb
Aug 18 14:19:00 stein firewire_sbp2: sbp2_scsi_abort
Aug 18 14:50:08 stein firewire_sbp2: status write for unknown orb
Aug 18 14:50:39 stein firewire_sbp2: sbp2_scsi_abort
Aug 18 14:57:24 stein firewire_sbp2: status write for unknown orb
Aug 18 14:57:54 stein firewire_sbp2: sbp2_scsi_abort

cpio finished with exit code 0, and I compared one of the directories
within which a command was aborted after remounting the disk.  Seems
that error was properly recovered from.

I will test if more of these errors occur in write access or with ext3,
but at least I have a way now to get one error per ~20 minutes
continuous IO, on average.  Then I will proceed to examine the new
stack's sources for potential related bugs.  Will take a while though
because I have other projects going on at the moment.
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Stefan Richter
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