From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Re: GRUB + LVM + XFS? Message-Id: <20020115151829.F11005@sistina.com> References: <1010427293.29260.3.camel@UberGeek> <200201080927.g089QVJ00669@hammer.brocade.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200201080927.g089QVJ00669@hammer.brocade.com>; from ahead@bigpond.net.au on Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 10:48:11AM +1000 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: Date: Tue Jan 15 08:21:01 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 10:48:11AM +1000, Adrian Head wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 05:54, Rupa Schomaker wrote: > > I'm having toubles with the current CVS version of the XFS kernel. I > > haven't had time to look at it completely, but... it could be: > > > > 1) mismatch between userspace and kernel (what LVM is in the XFS > > kernel? I'm using the debian lvm10 userspace). > > > > 2) bad config > > > > 3) ??? > > > > A quick "bt" at boot in kdb shows that devfs is in the call path. No, > > I haven't had time to write everything down. :( Man, I wish there was > > an easy to dump the kdb info or an OOPs to disk... > > Well all I do is for getting kdb output is to use a serial console and > another computer - then cut and past then send ;-). > > It is very interesting that devfs is referenced - there was a LVM memory > corruption problem and a patch for LVM/devfs - it can be found here: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-xfs&m=101031443221058&w=2 > > From my experience it seems that LVM 1.0.1rc4(ish) is way more robust than > the updated LVM 1.0.1 or even CVS LVM 1.0.1 yesterday. Do you have some input which particular changes cause it? Thanks. > However, not > everything works as expected with either. You can find a results table for a > few tests I have conducted here: (of course YMMV) > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-lvm&m=100994364215110&w=2 > > I think you would be very interested in the discussions and activity that has > been occuring on the linux-xfs & linux-lvm lists at the moment regarding XFS > and LVM. If you are seeing problems I would be very interested in finding > out how your problems differ from mine. > > -- > Adrian Head > > (Public Key available on request.) > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-