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From: Joe Thornber <thornber@btconnect.com>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Upgrade to 0.9.1b8 went ok but....
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:43:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010726134310.B723@btconnect.com> (raw)
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

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.

  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-26 12:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-25 21:57 [linux-lvm] Upgrade to 0.9.1b8 went ok but Gonyou, Austin
2001-07-26  9:46 ` Joe Thornber
2001-07-26 12:16 ` Dave Alden
2001-07-26 12:43   ` Joe Thornber [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-26 19:28 Gonyou, Austin
2001-07-27 18:33 Dale Stephenson

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