From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:43:10 +0100 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Upgrade to 0.9.1b8 went ok but.... Message-ID: <20010726134310.B723@btconnect.com> References: <85063BBE668FD411944400D0B744267A643517@AUSMAIL> <20010726081633.A11299@math.ohio-state.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010726081633.A11299@math.ohio-state.edu>; from alden@math.ohio-state.edu on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 08:16:33AM -0400 From: Joe Thornber Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 08:16:33AM -0400, Dave Alden wrote: > Hi, > > Are you aware that the XFS folks modified LVM to work with XFS (something > about a new ioctl or such)? They state that if you install the latest > patches, you'll back out the XFS-specific changes which can cause you to > lose your XFS filesystem. For more info, see the thread with a subject > of "When LVM-0.9.1beta7 will be merged to XFS cvs tree?" from: > > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/mail_archive/0107/threads.html#00127 > > My understanding is that this applies to any LVM patches (including the beta8 > patches). No I wasn't aware of this, though Patrick may be since he uses XFS. from http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/mail_archive/0107/msg00132.html: > All block devices in a XFS kernel need a special patch to add an ioctl > to set the logical block size. The original poster probably didn't add > that ioctl to his new hacked in LVM; which will cause all kinds of > problems with xfs user tools and also probably file system corruption.