From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sander Subject: Re: btrfs/iSCSI/sparse file OOPS. Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:39:56 +0200 Message-ID: <20091015063956.GA25256@cumulus> References: <83af81d492eb76684573e83bcae78a23.squirrel@webmail.jots.org> Reply-To: sander@humilis.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org To: Ken D'Ambrosio Return-path: In-Reply-To: <83af81d492eb76684573e83bcae78a23.squirrel@webmail.jots.org> List-ID: Hello Ken, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote (ao): > Hey, all. I've tried repeatedly to get an 800 GB sparse file on a 1 TB > btrfs partition to work as an iSCSI target... and I can run fdisk on it > (and see the iSCSI disk just fine), but when I try to create a partition > and exit, it OOPSes every time. Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.31-13-generic is the > latest I've tried. Is this a known bug? I've tried Googling to no avail. > If there's anything I can do to help troubleshoot, please let me know. While this obviously won't solve the bug, it might help you proceed: could you live with not having partitions on the iSCSI disk and just use the whole disk? Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net