From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:34:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.168.28]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id k8PNYZaG017329 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:34:36 -0700 Received: from tricca.tcs.tulane.edu (tricca.tcs.tulane.edu [129.81.224.27]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 6878045F68E for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:12:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <45185424.2030707@tulane.edu> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:11:48 -0500 From: Rene Salmon MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: LVM and XFS cannot set blocksize on block device Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: xfs@oss.sgi.com Cc: Rene Salmon Hi, I am trying to create an xfs file system on and LVM logical volume. the actual physical drive has blocks or sectors of 4096. when I try to make the xfs file system on top of LVM I get this message: helix-priv:~ # mkfs.xfs -f /dev/vg_u00/lv_u00 mkfs.xfs: warning - cannot set blocksize on block device /dev/vg_u00/lv_u00: Invalid argument Warning: the data subvolume sector size 512 is less than the sector size reported by the device (4096). meta-data=/dev/vg_u00/lv_u00 isize=256 agcount=32, agsize=11489280 blks = sectsz=512 attr=0 data = bsize=4096 blocks=367656960, imaxpct=25 = sunit=0 swidth=0 blks, unwritten=1 naming =version 2 bsize=4096 log =internal log bsize=4096 blocks=32768, version=1 = sectsz=512 sunit=0 blks realtime =none extsz=65536 blocks=0, rtextents=0 helix-priv:~ # any ideas? Thanks Rene -- - -- Rene Salmon Tulane University Center for Computational Science http://www.ccs.tulane.edu rsalmon@tulane.edu Tel 504-862-8393 Tel 504-988-8552 Fax 504-862-8392