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To: Travis Mikalson <bofh@terranova.net>
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on 04/07/2013 16:43 Travis Mikalson said the following:
> Yes, that helpful article is where I got the run-down on how best to
> report what was going on here. I still believe this is an actual
> deadlock bug and not a storage layer issue.
> 
> I have not seen any indications of any problems with my storage layer.
> You'd think there would be some scary-looking complaint on the console
> during one of these deadlocks if it had suddenly lost the capability to
> communicate with most or all the disks, but I've deadlocked at least 10
> times now in 2013 and never anything of the sort. Thanks to IPMI, I have
> actually viewed the console each time it has happened.

Well, I do consider GEOM, CAM, drivers to be parts of the storage layer.
In other words, everything below ZFS.

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Andriy Gapon