mdadm+lvm2: ioctl error and cannot mount the device nodes?

mdadm+lvm2: ioctl error and cannot mount the device nodes?

[Michael Ole Olsen]

i keep getting

[1]
device-mapper: table: device 9:0 too small for target
device-mapper: table: 254:11: linear: dm-linear: Device lookup failed
device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table

with a cleanly installed system (debian lenny netinstall)

my raid is a raid5 reshaped to raid6 with 2.6.30 by echoing into /sys
(all Q blocks on the last disk)

i can see all device nodes in /dev/mapper but just not mount them

if i try to mount it just says:
    mount: you must specify the filesystem type
and the dmesg output as in [1]

these are the modules in my initramfs:

xfs
ext3
dm-mod
md
raid0
raid1
raid10
raid456
raid6_pq
linear

# usb-storage deps
usbcore
usbhid
libata
scsi_transport_spi
usb-storage
scsi_mod
sg
sd_mod
sbp2


Any idea what I am doing wrong? I thought the problem [1] would
be because of a misconfigured kernel with no
devicemapper support, but I think have compiled everything in?

I cannot use any other kernels than 2.6.30 or it will not assemble
the raid6 (mdadm) so I dont think i have another option than
compiling it myself, apt has only 2.6.22 or such

Re: mdadm+lvm2: ioctl error and cannot mount the device nodes?

[Michael Ole Olsen]

I think the mdadm was uncleanly shut down

the rootfs was on nfs and the nfs server halted and was taken off.

mdadm thinks the array is clean, how to i check if its unclean without 
risking my data

could this unclean shutdown result in device mapper errors like this?

best regards
Michael Ole Olsen

Michael Ole Olsen wrote:
> i keep getting
>
> [1]
> device-mapper: table: device 9:0 too small for target
> device-mapper: table: 254:11: linear: dm-linear: Device lookup failed
> device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
>
> with a cleanly installed system (debian lenny netinstall)
>
> my raid is a raid5 reshaped to raid6 with 2.6.30 by echoing into /sys
> (all Q blocks on the last disk)
>
> i can see all device nodes in /dev/mapper but just not mount them
>
> if i try to mount it just says:
>    mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> and the dmesg output as in [1]
>
> these are the modules in my initramfs:
>
> xfs
> ext3
> dm-mod
> md
> raid0
> raid1
> raid10
> raid456
> raid6_pq
> linear
>
> # usb-storage deps
> usbcore
> usbhid
> libata
> scsi_transport_spi
> usb-storage
> scsi_mod
> sg
> sd_mod
> sbp2
>
>
> Any idea what I am doing wrong? I thought the problem [1] would
> be because of a misconfigured kernel with no
> devicemapper support, but I think have compiled everything in?
>
> I cannot use any other kernels than 2.6.30 or it will not assemble
> the raid6 (mdadm) so I dont think i have another option than
> compiling it myself, apt has only 2.6.22 or such
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Re: mdadm+lvm2: ioctl error and cannot mount the device nodes?

[Luca Berra]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 11:55:36PM +0200, Michael Ole Olsen wrote:
> I think the mdadm was uncleanly shut down
>
> the rootfs was on nfs and the nfs server halted and was taken off.
>
> mdadm thinks the array is clean, how to i check if its unclean without 
> risking my data
>
> could this unclean shutdown result in device mapper errors like this?

who knows? you are providing no useful data at all.

L.

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