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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Phil White <cerise-xfs@l.armory.com>
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@debian.org>,
	Phil White <cerise-xfs@littlegreenmen.armory.com>,
	xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Problem with mkfs.xfs on a regular file
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 13:47:57 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131127024757.GF10988@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131127024119.GD13101@boogeyman>

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 06:41:19PM -0800, Phil White wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 09:38:20PM -0500, Nathan Scott wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > ...
> > > It's trying to read/write 512 bytes at the beginning of the file which seems
> > > reasonably innocuous.  I double checked the man page which says that under
> > > 2.6, O_DIRECT writes can be aligned to 512 bytes without a problem.  sbp
> > > comes
> > > out with 4096 in blocksize and 512 in sectsize when zero_old_xfs_structures()
> > > is called and the first error comes up, so I'm at a loss for what's going
> > > wrong.
> > 
> > The filesystem backing the new /root/image file doesn't support direct I/O?
> > 
> > cheers.
> 
> The filesystem backing /root/image is xfs.  Good guess though.
> 
> For the record:
> caliban mnt # xfs_info /
> meta-data=/dev/root              isize=256    agcount=4, agsize=25685952 blks
>          =                       sectsz=4096  attr=2
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^
Yup, there's your problem.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-27  2:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-27  2:31 Problem with mkfs.xfs on a regular file Phil White
2013-11-27  2:36 ` Phil White
2013-11-27  2:38 ` Nathan Scott
2013-11-27  2:41   ` Phil White
2013-11-27  2:47     ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2013-11-27  2:47 ` Dave Chinner
2013-11-28  2:39   ` Eric Sandeen
2013-11-28  5:16     ` Dave Chinner
2013-11-28  5:34       ` Eric Sandeen
2013-11-28 10:01         ` Dave Chinner
2013-11-28 11:47           ` Phil White
2013-11-28 15:38             ` Eric Sandeen
2013-11-28 15:32           ` Eric Sandeen
2013-11-28 21:12             ` Dave Chinner
2013-11-29  1:28               ` Dave Chinner

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