[linux-lvm] Upgrade to 0.9.1b8 went ok but....

[Gonyou, Austin]

This would make some sense since I just blew my fs away and recreated them.
Then they mounted fine. 

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Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-796-9023
email: austin at coremetrics.com 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Thornber [mailto:thornber at btconnect.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 7:43 AM
> To: linux-lvm at sistina.com
> Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Upgrade to 0.9.1b8 went ok but....
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 08:16:33AM -0400, Dave Alden wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >   Are you aware that the XFS folks modified LVM to work 
> with XFS (something
> > about a new ioctl or such)?  They state that if you install 
> the latest
> > patches, you'll back out the XFS-specific changes which can 
> cause you to
> > lose your XFS filesystem.  For more info, see the thread 
> with a subject
> > of "When LVM-0.9.1beta7 will be merged to XFS cvs tree?" from:
> > 
> > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/mail_archive/0107/threads.html#00127
> > 
> > My understanding is that this applies to any LVM patches 
> (including the beta8
> > patches).
> 
> No I wasn't aware of this, though Patrick may be since he uses XFS.
> 
> from http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/mail_archive/0107/msg00132.html:
> 
> > All block devices in a XFS kernel need a special patch to 
> add an ioctl
> > to set the logical block size. The original poster probably 
> didn't add
> > that ioctl to his new hacked in LVM; which will cause all kinds of 
> > problems with xfs user tools and also probably file system 
> corruption.
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