Re: Disconnect fighting stupid devices

Theodore Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu)
Wed, 10 Apr 1996 12:26:34 -0400


Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 11:22:21 -0400
From: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@nigel.vnet.net>

I get EXT2-fs panic: ext2_write_inode: unable to read i-node block
followed by an inode number and a block number, which vary from time
to time.

OK, so there are two problems. The first is one that we know about
already --- we need to have better error recovery when the device driver
signals an error from a read.

The other problem is that the SCSI subsystem reported a disk error when
a SCSI bus reset happens, instead of retrying the request. Does that
sound right?

- Ted