[LU-262] port the changes of llverdev.c and llverfs.c from master to b1_8

• Type: Bug
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Minor
• Fix Version/s: Lustre 1.8.6
• Affects Version/s: Lustre 1.8.6
• Severity: 3
• Assignee: Jian Yu
• Reporter: Jian Yu

Description

The following main changes of llverdev.c and llverfs.c on master branch need to be ported to b1_8 branch:
bug 24017 make llverfs more robust against errors during testing
bug 20492 allow llverdev/llverfs to handle media errors better

Issue Links

• Trackbacks: Lustre 1.8.x known issues tracker While testing against Lustre b18 branch, we would hit known bugs which were already reported in Lustre Bugzilla https://bugzilla.lustre.org/. In order to move away from relying on Bugzilla, we would create a JIRA