Re: [Xen-devel] What is the state of blktap2?

["David P. Quigley" <dpquigl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 14:54 -0800, Daniel Stodden wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 17:27 -0500, David P. Quigley wrote:
> > I'm currently working on moving storage services into their own domain
> > and I've been looking at blktap2. I've been trying to get an image
> > mounted with blktap2 and for some odd reason and tapdisk2 keeps hanging
> > instead of quitting at the end. I haven't removed any of the storage
> > startup code at this point so everything should be as it normally is in
> > xen-unstable. Is this a known bug? Are there some requirements on
> > blktap2 that I'm possibly not meeting? Is there anything in particular
> > that I should be looking at to try to debug the problem?
> 
> Are you running pvops?
> Cheer up, after 2.6.23 it's not you but just broken.
> 
> The hang you encounter is likely blktap trying to remove a sysfs node
> from within its own callback. That could be circumvented, but it's
> likely not the only issue.
> 
> Daniel
> 

Well if its just broken in general any suggestions on where I should
look to try and fix it? blktap2 seems to be my best bet for implementing
my component so if I need to fix it to get it working I'm fine with
that.

Dave


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