[linux-lvm] PBs with LVM over software RAID

[svetljo]

i'll try with 2.4.9 and with 2.4.9ac5
how do you think should i do it with LVM-1.0.1rc1 or rc2
i think i should try with rc1 to find whether it comes from the xfs 
kernel changes, as i'm currently using rc1

Andreas Dilger wrote:

>On Sep 01, 2001  00:24 +0200, svetljo wrote:
>
>>it works with IMB's JFS
>>when i try mkfs -t reiserfs -f /dev/myData/SRC it segfaults :
>>
>>[root at svetljo mnt]# mkfs -t reiserfs -f /dev/myData/SRC
>>mkreiserfs, 2001 - reiserfsprogs 3.x.0j
>>===================================================================
>>LEAF NODE (8211) contains level=1, nr_items=2, free_space=3932 rdkey
>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>|###|type|ilen|f/sp| loc|fmt|fsck|                   
>>key                      |
>>|   |    |    |e/cn|    |   
>>|need|                                            |
>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>Segmentation fault
>>
>>isn't that a bit strange that reiserfs and xfs doesn't handle it, but 
>>jfs does
>>
>
>It could just be lucky that JFS works, depending on access patterns.
>
>>and the one with ext2 :
>>
>>[root at svetljo mnt]# mkfs -t ext2 /dev/myData/SRC
>>mke2fs 1.22, 22-Jun-2001 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
>>Filesystem label=
>>OS type: Linux
>>Block size=4096 (log=2)
>>Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
>>786432 inodes, 1572864 blocks
>>78643 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
>>First data block=0
>>48 block groups
>>32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
>>16384 inodes per group
>>Superblock backups stored on blocks:
>>       32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736
>>
>>Writing inode tables: Segmentation fault
>>
>
>Then it is definitely not anything to do with the filesystem itself
>(although it may be with the XFS patch).  Try a kernel without the
>XFS patch and see if this makes a difference.  Maybe it is a bad
>interaction between XFS, RAID, LVM?
>
>Cheers, Andreas
>