Re: Badness in as_completed_request at drivers/block/as-iosched.c:919

From: Oleg Drokin
Date: Thu Oct 23 2003 - 01:42:35 EST


Hello!

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 01:27:55PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > The warning should be harmless. I'll remove it once I make sure. I
> > don't think there have been any recent as-iosched changes, so something
> > else must have just triggered it off.
> The smartd failure doesn't look harmless:
> Device: /dev/sdb, SMART Failure: DATA CHANNEL IMPENDING FAILURE DATA ERROR RATE TOO HIGH
> Or does this always happen?

Yes, drive thinks it is. I am aware of this. But kernel looks surprised.
I have another scsi drive in that system whose smart status is OK, and kernel
does not produce this sort of output when smartd is adding /dev/sda to monitor
list.

> I assume we're dealing with a non-fs request here.

I think you are right, though I think filesystems from that drive might be
already mounted by the time smartd is started.

Bye,
Oleg
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