On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 04:56:58PM +0300, Jarno Elonen wrote:
> Package: src:linux
> Version: 3.10~rc7-1~exp1
> Severity: normal
>
> My bcache test setup is working otherwise well, but when enabled,
> the "poweroff" or "reboot" commands never finish.
>
> Block device stack is as follows:
>
> - DRBD on LVM on BCACHE on MD0 (raid10) on HDD (sata)
> - with: bcache cache device on LVM on SSD
>
> The shutdown sequence gets to the very last line ("booting now" or
> something to that effect), but instead of booting, it pauses for a long
> time and then starts writing out ATA errors and IO error reports from
> bcache, saying bcache failed to read the cache device.
Please provide the error messages. A screenshot will do, though a
text log (using netconsole or serial console) would be preferable.
> I guess that is to
> be expected as LVM, which contains contains the cache, has apparently
> been shut down at that point.
>
> This appears to be a bug in either the (ordering of) shutdown procedures
> or bcache. I've tried manually stopping bcache and removing the module
> before booting, and that indeed makes the shutdown work as expected.
[...]
So this might be considered a bug in the lvm2 package. (Actually,
I've never understood why lvm2 removes logical volumes during
shutdown/reboot at all.) However, lvm2 never removes the root logical
volume because it's detected as busy (still mounted). Usage by bcache
should - but apparently does not - result in that same busy status,
which would presumably be a kernel bug.
Ben.
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