Hi, On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 10:06:00AM +0200, Hermann Lauer wrote: > Hello All, > > On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 07:42:32PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Control: tag -1 upstream > > Control: severity -1 important > > > > On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 16:50:03 +0100 Hermann Lauer <Hermann.Lauer@...1994......> wrote: > > > Package: src:linux > > > Version: 3.16.7-2 > > > Severity: normal > > > Tags: patch > > > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > > > the nbd timeout settings from nbd-client to the kernel is broken inside the jessie kernel. > > > This renders raid1 on top of nbd devices useless, as that device will simply hang > > > when the network connection or the nbd-server fails until the connection to > > > the nbd-server is brought back to live - clearly not what is intended with > > > using a raid1. > > > > > > This worked in lenny and was broken since wheezy. > > > > > > Appended is the patch obtained from the nbd subsystem maintainers list, which allows > > > me to rebuild the jessie kernel package and made it work again. > > > > > > If you need futher information or references please let me know. > > > > Unfortunately this change has still not been committed by the nbd > > maintainers (at least, not anywhere that I can see) and we will not > > apply it until that happens. Perhaps you can remind them that this > > problem is still unfixed? > > > > I'm increasing severity since this is a regression. > > any news on the timeout issue ? The debian kernel maintainers needs a renewed patch > committed to the kernel to fix that regression. > > Of course I'm also highly interested in getting that fixed > to use online mirroring for important machines again. > > I can offer again testing if that would help. Thanks, I am working on this and hopefully have a patch at the end of this week. If you could then test it, that would be great. Best Regards, Markus -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 |
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