Re: enbd-fr1 on 2.6.11.12 problems

"Also sprach denis bonnenfant:"
> I'm testing a new redundant setup with enbd and fr1 compiled on 2.6.11.12 kernel.

It works on 2.6.11? fr1 in particular is untested by me on fr1. I got
the impression that I should lock very carefully at the locks!

> For testing purpose, i'm using Vmware virtual machines over my XP notbook.
> 
> All the redundancy stuff (heartbeat and co) is working as expected, nbd device is failed in raid 
> when network is down, hotrepair works fine... But mounting the raid device freeze the system (not a 
> real crash, i can open a new console, but mount process can't be killed and system can't be stopped 
> cleanly).

Well, that certainly sounds like a locking problem.

> So just a question : do you think that the problem is vmware-related (there's a lot of layers that 
> may cause race conditions or deadlocks), or do i need to investigate furthermore as normally vmware 
> setups are known to you to be useable for testing enbd-fr1 raid ?

I'd try using raid1 instead, so as to confirm/deny that the problem is
in the fr1 layer.

Peter