Re: Invalidate: busy buffer + MD RAID 1

Teodor Iacob (Teodor.Iacob@astral.kappa.ro)
Thu, 19 Dec 2002 17:35:16 +0200


I get the same behaviour on several machines .. but I sleep well at night :P

On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 07:45:00PM +0100, Igmar Palsenberg wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I get a 'invalidate: busy buffer' about 20 times at reboot. Only at
> reboot however.
>
> Setup :
>
> linux-2.4.19 + grsecurity-1.9.7d + acl+xattr 0.8.53 + freeswan (inc. aes
> and that kind of stuff)
>
> The machine (Compaq ML350) has 2 scsi devices (sda, sdb) and a RAID 1
> setup :
>
> md0 : sda1 + sdb1
> md1 : sda3 + sdb3
> swap is done on sda2 + sdb2, using default prio's.
>
> Triggering the 'invalidate: busy buffer' is easiest done by letting squid
> create it's cache dirs and then rebooting.
>
> No data corruption is occuring (at last not any that a force fsck can
> detect), but I removed the RAID1 setup to make sure I sleep well tonight
> :)
>
> Looking at the md.c code, line 1708 :
>
> ITERATE_RDEV(mddev,rdev,tmp) {
> if (rdev->faulty)
> continue;
> invalidate_device(rdev->dev, 1);
> if (get_hardsect_size(rdev->dev)
> > md_hardsect_sizes[mdidx(mddev)])
> md_hardsect_sizes[mdidx(mddev)] =
> get_hardsect_size(rdev->dev);
> }
>
> Looks like it is invalidating the underlying devices (sda[13], sdb[13] in
> my case.
>
> Since my RAID array doesn't get screwed I suspect that the md code does
> the above again on a do_md_stop(), but I can't find it.
>
> Anyone got any comments on this ??
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Igmar
>
>
> Please CC all responses.
>
>
>
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