dm-striped device sizes must be multiple of chunk-size. FC5 and rawhide

[Dwaine Garden]

Upgrading to kernel 2.6.16-2088 and I'm getting the
following error when booting.

device-mapper: dm-stripe: Target length not divisible
by chunk size.
device-mapper: error adding target to table.

There was a patch submitted to 2.6.16, that limits
dm-stripe to targets that are multiples of the chunk
size.   

[PATCH] dm stripe: Fix bounds

The dm-stripe target currently does not enforce that
the size of a stripe
device be a multiple of the chunk-size.  Under certain
conditions, this can
lead to I/O requests going off the end of an
underlying device.  This
test-case shows one example.

echo "0 100 linear /dev/hdb1 0" | dmsetup create
linear0
echo "0 100 linear /dev/hdb1 100" | dmsetup create
linear1
echo "0 200 striped 2 32 /dev/mapper/linear0 0
/dev/mapper/linear1 0" | \
   dmsetup create stripe0
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/stripe0 bs=1k

This will produce the output:
dd: writing '/dev/mapper/stripe0': Input/output error
97+0 records in
96+0 records out

And in the kernel log will be:
attempt to access beyond end of device
dm-0: rw=0, want=104, limit=100

The patch will check that the table size is a multiple
of the stripe
chunk-size when the table is created, which will
prevent the above striped
device from being created.

This should not affect tools like LVM or EVMS, since
in all the cases I can
think of, striped devices are always created with the
sizes being a
multiple of the chunk-size.

The size of a stripe device must be a multiple of its
chunk-size.

(akpm: that typecast is quite gratuitous)

Signed-off-by: Kevin Corry <kevcorry at us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at osdl.org>


I have tried setting the bios chunck size to 64, 32,
16k and re-installed from the DVD.  I used both FC5T3
and FC5 install DVD.  I have tried 8 times with
re-installs.  It would seem that a computer with
dm-stripe can not be further upgraded because of the
patch which was submitted to 2.6.16 kernel.  The patch
is perfectly good, to fix a problem.   

How do you fix the stripe so it is a multiple of
chunk-size?  If we can not fix it manually, we should
notify people not to use dmraid with Bios software
raid.

I'm going to submit a bug report for this.

dmsetup status
via_ecfdfiehfa: 0 312499998 striped
VolGroup00-LogVol01: 0 4063232 linear
VolGroup00-LogVol00: 0 308150272 linear
via_ecfdfiehfap2: 0 312287535 linear
via_ecfdfiehfap1: 0 208782 linear


*** Active Set
name   : via_ecfdfiehfa
size   : 312499998
stride : 128
type   : stripe
status : ok
subsets: 0
devs   : 2
spares : 0