[linux-lvm] Filesystem corruption with LVM's pvmove onto a PV with a larger physical block size

[Ingo Franzki]

On 05.03.2019 01:12, Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Mar 2019, Cesare Leonardi wrote:
> 
>> Today I repeated all the tests and indeed in one case the mount failed: after pvmoving from the 512/4096 disk to the 4096/4096 disk, with the LV ext4 using 1024 block size.
>  ...
>> The error happened where you guys expected. And also for me fsck showed no errors.
>>
>> But doesn't look like a filesystem corruption: if you pvmove back the data, it will become readable again:
>  ...
> 
> THAT is a crucial observation.  It's not an LVM bug, but the filesystem
> trying to read 1024 bytes on a 4096 device.  
Yes that's probably the reason. Nevertheless, its not really the FS's fault, since it was moved by LVM to a 4069 device.
The FS does not know anything about the move, so it reads in the block size it was created with (1024 in this case).

I still think LVM should prevent one from mixing devices with different physical block sizes, or at least warn when pvmoving or lvextending onto a PV with a larger block size, since this can cause trouble.

> I suspect it could also
> happen with an unaligned filesystem on a 4096 device.
> 

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