On 02/03/2012 04:17 AM, Sebastian Riemer wrote:
> On 03/02/12 08:41, Ulrich Windl wrote:
>> [...]
>>   
>>>> Users have only been hitting it during shutdown at reboot time though. I
>>>> think what was happening was the initiator sent a logout, got a logout
>>>> response, but then the target still sent data/responses for other IO
>>>> that was running at the time. The initiator assumed that once the logout
>>>> response was sent the target would stop sending data.
>>>     
>> [...]
>>
>> According to my experience this can happen with multipath: When you use 
>> "multipath -f map", the command returns quickly, but actually patch checkers 
>> are removed in background after that. So if you disconnect your iSCSI 
>> immediately after flushing your maps, you may hit this. I haven't had this 
>> with iSCSI, but with a regular SAN (where I also had hard hangs in I/O).
>>   
> 
> Thanks for your responses. I'll try this. Luckily, this hasn't too high
> impact for us.
> 
> Unfortunately, we have AUFS on our disk-less servers.

Are you doing iscsi root? I think that is where I have seen it the most.
iscsi root then user reboots. In the reboot then they would hit the problem.

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