From: "Bryn M. Reeves" <bmr@redhat.com>
To: Yathindra <ydev@cs.utah.edu>
Cc: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Simulating faulty disk
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:21:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EA18DF3.3000800@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EA18C11.5060600@cs.utah.edu>
On 10/21/2011 04:13 PM, Yathindra wrote:
> >mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb /mnt
> Copied some data into /mnt
> >dmsetup create d0 --table="0 `blockdev --getsize /dev/sdb` delay
> /dev/sdb 0 500"
> device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument
> Command failed
You can't create a mapped device on something while it is mounted as
device-mapper needs to open it exclusively.
> But as seen from above, dmsetup is failing to create a flakey/delay
> device when /dev/sdb
> has a filesystem on top of it. Is there any workaround ?
Set up the file system the way you want it on sdb first. Then unmount it
and create the device-mapper devices and mount that.
Regards,
Bryn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-21 15:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-20 3:18 Simulating faulty disk Yathindra
[not found] ` <20111020044734.GC15211@atlantis.cc.ndsu.nodak.edu>
2011-10-20 7:30 ` Yathindra
2011-10-20 8:43 ` Yathindra
2011-10-20 9:27 ` Bryn M. Reeves
2011-10-20 15:45 ` Yathindra
2011-10-20 15:56 ` Bryn M. Reeves
2011-10-20 15:59 ` Yathindra
2011-10-20 16:46 ` Yathindra
2011-10-20 17:40 ` Bryn M. Reeves
2011-10-20 17:53 ` Yathindra
[not found] ` <4EA13A52.60902@redhat.com>
[not found] ` <4EA18610.3050900@cs.utah.edu>
2011-10-21 14:56 ` Bryn M. Reeves
2011-10-21 15:00 ` Yathindra
2011-10-21 15:13 ` Yathindra
2011-10-21 15:21 ` Bryn M. Reeves [this message]
2011-10-21 16:33 ` Yathindra
2011-10-22 6:16 ` Yathindra
2011-10-21 4:14 ` Yathindra
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