[E.Kowallik at tu-bs.de: [linux-lvm] lvm and raw devices (with Oracle 9 RAC)]

[Heinz J . Mauelshagen]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 09:27:54PM +0200, Eike Kowallik wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 11:30:00AM +0200, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 07:51:15PM +0200, Eike Kowallik wrote:
> 
> > > Hmm...  nobody can give me a hint? Are my problems and my questions
> > > so strange??
> > 
> > No, it is because we are all at the beach ;-)
> 
> Oh, sorry, I didn't know... ;-)
> 
> 
> > You are using a rather old LVM version. In case you can afford an upgrade
> > to LVM 1, your problem will be gone.
> 
> Yes, now the following command works here without any problems! :-))
> 
> > # raw -qa
> > /dev/raw/raw1:  bound to major 58, minor 0
> > dd if=/dev/raw/raw1 of=/dev/null bs=512 count=10
> > 10+0 records in
> > 10+0 records out
> 
> Before I wrote my first email to this list I had read the CHANGELOG,
> because I hadn't found any hint for my problem. Now, knowing the
> solution, I would like to understand the problem - a little bit. ;-)
> Which fix made the above command work?

We had 1024 byte minimal block sizes earlier.
Recent versions are back to 512 byte :)

> 
> Of course, this isn't a real important thing...
> 
> 
> > Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --
> 
> Thanks a lot, Heinz! Bye, Eike
> 
> 
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