[linux-lvm] Bugs in LVM and ext2: patch for LVM

[Joe Thornber]

Urs,

Could you try the latest code from CVS ? (to be released tomorrow),
since Andrea Arcangeli has already supplied a similar patch.

- Joe


On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 06:53:33PM +0100, Urs Thuermann wrote:
> Urs Thuermann <urs at isnogud.escape.de> writes:
> 
> > I've read lots of EXT2 and LVM src code and I think it turns out that
> > there is a bug in both.  Andreas has already given the fix for the
> > ext2, a suggestion for LVM is below (sorry, no patch, I really know to
> > little about all the block sizes and buffers of block devices).
> 
> Despite my limited knowledge of the src code for buffering and block
> devices I have made an patch which fixes the LVM problem for me.  I'm
> not 100% sure it is correct and if it is the clean solution.  Some
> kernel god should therefore take a look on it.  At least I have
> running it here in my kernel.
> 
> 
> --- linux-2.4.2/drivers/md/lvm.c.orig	Wed Feb 28 18:27:40 2001
> +++ linux-2.4.2/drivers/md/lvm.c	Wed Feb 28 17:00:25 2001
> @@ -376,6 +376,8 @@
>  static struct hd_struct lvm_hd_struct[MAX_LV];
>  static int lvm_blocksizes[MAX_LV] =
>  {0,};
> +static int lvm_hardsizes[MAX_LV] =
> +{0,};
>  static int lvm_size[MAX_LV] =
>  {0,};
>  static struct gendisk lvm_gendisk =
> @@ -3035,11 +3037,12 @@
>  		lvm_gendisk.part[i].start_sect = -1;	/* avoid partition check */
>  		lvm_size[i] = lvm_gendisk.part[i].nr_sects = 0;
>  		lvm_blocksizes[i] = BLOCK_SIZE;
> +		lvm_hardsizes[i] = BLOCK_SIZE;
>  	}
>  
>  	blk_size[MAJOR_NR] = lvm_size;
>  	blksize_size[MAJOR_NR] = lvm_blocksizes;
> -	hardsect_size[MAJOR_NR] = lvm_blocksizes;
> +	hardsect_size[MAJOR_NR] = lvm_hardsizes;
>  
>  	return;
>  } /* lvm_gen_init() */
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