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From: Xav' <xp@××××××××.fr>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] RAID0 + LVM2 + XFS : raid0_make_request bug
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:34:58
Message-Id: b3dcc2e96c1539324014be4efa71a770@mail
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] RAID0 + LVM2 + XFS : raid0_make_request bug: can't convert block across chunks or bigger than 64k by Xav'
1 On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:58:53 +0100, Xav' <xp@××××××××.fr> wrote:
2 > Hi everyone !
3 >
4 > I've setted up a Xen server with kernel 2.6.18-r12 with 2 SATAII disks
5 > of 750Go and with the following partitions scheme :
6 > dom0 ~ # sfdisk -l
7 >
8 > Disk /dev/sda: 91201 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
9 > Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
10 >
11 > Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
12 > /dev/sda1 * 0+ 64 65- 522081 fd Linux raid
13 autodetect
14 > /dev/sda2 65 586 522 4192965 fd Linux raid
15 autodetect
16 > /dev/sda3 587 847 261 2096482+ 82 Linux swap /
17 Solaris
18 > /dev/sda4 848 91200 90353 725760472+ fd Linux raid
19 autodetect
20 >
21 > Disk /dev/sdb: 91201 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
22 > Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
23 >
24 > Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
25 > /dev/sdb1 0+ 64 65- 522081 fd Linux raid
26 autodetect
27 > /dev/sdb2 65 586 522 4192965 fd Linux raid
28 autodetect
29 > /dev/sdb3 587 847 261 2096482+ 82 Linux swap /
30 Solaris
31 > /dev/sdb4 848 91200 90353 725760472+ fd Linux raid
32 autodetect
33 >
34 > dom0 ~ # cat /proc/mdstat
35 > Personalities : [raid0] [raid1]
36 > md1 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0]
37 > 521984 blocks [2/2] [UU]
38 >
39 > md2 : active raid0 sdb2[1] sda2[0]
40 > 8385792 blocks 64k chunks
41 >
42 > md3 : active raid0 sdb4[1] sda4[0]
43 > 1451520768 blocks 64k chunks
44 >
45 > dom0 ~ # pvdisplay
46 > File descriptor 3 left open
47 > --- Physical volume ---
48 > PV Name /dev/md3
49 > VG Name vg
50 > PV Size 1,35 TB / not usable 768,00 KB
51 > Allocatable yes
52 > PE Size (KByte) 4096
53 > Total PE 354375
54 > Free PE 271815
55 > Allocated PE 82560
56 > PV UUID tJg59C-SN1z-SkYX-Qs5H-1TXV-ynNd-HhGTOZ
57 >
58 > unused devices: <none>
59 >
60 >
61 > I've created some guests using LVM logiccal volumes on /dev/md3 and
62 > formatted with XFS filesystem. Sometimes, i've this messages in dmesg on
63 > dom0 :
64 > raid0_make_request bug: can't convert block across chunks or bigger than
65 > 64k
66 >
67 > After that bugs, there is many Input/Output errors in the guest, and so
68 > broke his gentoo installation so make me impossible to read the guest
69 > system logs. Any help would be greatly appreciated as this server
70 > actually host my primary DNS server and so i can't reinstall it from
71 > scratch.
72 >
73 > Many thanks in advance.
74
75 No one can help me ? I've already seeked on google for this problem, but
76 this bug seemes to exists from 2003 and for kernel 2.4 or earlier 2.6.0 ...
77 So any idea please ??
78
79 > Xavier
80 >
81 --
82 Xavier

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