Re: The end of my Ultrasparc 5?!?

2018-01-25 Thread Petr Vorel
Hi Adrian, > I've seen that on my Amiga 4000 as well. > The problem is that btrfs tries to determine whether a block device is > a hard drive or not and if the block device driver misses a certain > flag (e.g. removable) it will just scan forever. > In the case of my Amiga, the btrfs module was

Re: The end of my Ultrasparc 5?!?

2018-01-25 Thread James Clarke
On 25 Jan 2018, at 23:58, Sean Whitney wrote: > > I recently switched from sparc to sparc64 using the cdrom drive in September. > Sometime in the last two weeks the server rebooted and when it tried to > restart it hung trying to find a btrfs filesystem, which I don't

Re: The end of my Ultrasparc 5?!?

2018-01-25 Thread Sean Whitney
yes, I've tried passing in init=/bin/bash but, it still trys to process the btrfs filesystem before a prompt is available. The boot process hangs here: [ 44.070355] raid6: int64x1 xor()43 MB/s [ 44.190108] raid6: int64x2 gen() 125 MB/s [ 44.310194] raid6: int64x2 xor()62

The end of my Ultrasparc 5?!?

2018-01-25 Thread Sean Whitney
I recently switched from sparc to sparc64 using the cdrom drive in September. Sometime in the last two weeks the server rebooted and when it tried to restart it hung trying to find a btrfs filesystem, which I don't have. This seems to be a problem for PCs, but it resolves itself in 15

Re: The end of my Ultrasparc 5?!?

2018-01-25 Thread James Clarke
On 26 Jan 2018, at 00:10, Sean Whitney wrote: > On 01/25/2018 04:03 PM, James Clarke wrote: >> On 25 Jan 2018, at 23:58, Sean Whitney wrote: >>> >>> I recently switched from sparc to sparc64 using the cdrom drive in >>> September. Sometime in

Re: The end of my Ultrasparc 5?!?

2018-01-25 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 01/26/2018 01:13 AM, James Clarke wrote: >> It' will stay like this for days >> >> Actually looking back through my backups, I reinstalled sparc64 in March >> 2017, and the btrfs packages are included in the next backup. These have >> been installed all along, but the timeout behavior

Re: The end of my Ultrasparc 5?!?

2018-01-25 Thread Sean Whitney
On 01/25/2018 04:24 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 01/26/2018 01:13 AM, James Clarke wrote: It' will stay like this for days Actually looking back through my backups, I reinstalled sparc64 in March 2017, and the btrfs packages are included in the next backup. These have been

Re: The end of my Ultrasparc 5?!?

2018-01-25 Thread Sean Whitney
On 01/25/2018 04:24 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 01/26/2018 01:13 AM, James Clarke wrote: It' will stay like this for days Actually looking back through my backups, I reinstalled sparc64 in March 2017, and the btrfs packages are included in the next backup. These have been