[linux-lvm] Failed xfs_growfs after lvextend

[Randall A. Jones]

Nathan Scott wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 01:31:10PM -0500, Randall A. Jones wrote:
> 
>>I extended an LV to 12.28TB and ran xfs_growfs on the mount point, lv0.
>>This appeared to work fine except that after this, the filesystem didn't 
>>appear any larger.
> 
> 
> I looked into this problem awhile back now.  I believe what you're
> seeing here is an inconsistency in the kernels block layer - at least,
> when I last looked at this, this was the problem - the size increase
> was indeed done inside the driver, and /sys/block/xxx/size confirmed
> that, but the interfaces which use /dev/xxx to get the device size do
> not see the increase (i.e. lseek(SEEK_END) or a BLKGETSIZE64 ioctl).
> 
> I wrote the attached program to show the issue, and sent mail to LKML
> to let folks know of the issue, I guess noone has got around to trying
> to address the problem yet though.  The core of the problem was that
> the /dev/xxx inode size (i_size) had not been updated to reflect the
> change in device size, IIRC.

Ok.  I looked at the things you suggested.  It seems that everything is 
in order with the device mapper and it sees the 12.28TB device size. 
Your getdevicesize.c code verified this with a BLKGETSIZE64 ioctl call.

root at mapdata<~>$ cat /sys/block/dm-0/size
26367492096

root at mapdata<~>$ ~rajones/getdevicesize /dev/mapper/vg0-lv0
26367492096 512 byte blocks (BLKGETSIZE64)

26367492096 512 byte blocks is approx. 12.28TB.


So, back to xfs.  Is it possible xfs_growfs is not working properly? 
The result after running xfs_growfs was that the primary superblock on 
the LV filesystem was corrupt or missing.


Is there a workaround?   A 12.28TB LV with xfs filesystem should work, yes?

One idea for a workaround is to relocate the data on the misbehaving 
LV/filesystem and recreate the LV and filesystem from scratch to avoid 
using xfs_growfs.
I have enough free PVs to create a temp space to move my existing data.

Are there any possibilities for fixing the problem "in place".

Thank you,
Randall

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