From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:39:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from larry.melbourne.sgi.com (larry.melbourne.sgi.com [134.14.52.130]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with SMTP id m3T0cjWR026992 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:38:49 -0700 Message-ID: <48166E18.10008@sgi.com> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:38:48 +1000 From: Mark Goodwin Reply-To: markgw@sgi.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Problems with xfs_grow on large LVM + XFS filesystem 20TB size check 2 failed References: <6A32BC807C106440B7E23208F280DDAF01D21F36FD@bcmail1.VIDMARK.LOCAL> <481650F5.40205@sandeen.net> <6A32BC807C106440B7E23208F280DDAF01D21F3718@bcmail1.VIDMARK.LOCAL> <481656F6.5030300@sandeen.net> In-Reply-To: <481656F6.5030300@sandeen.net> 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: Eric Sandeen Cc: Lance Reed , "xfs@oss.sgi.com" Eric Sandeen wrote: > Lance Reed wrote: >> Thanks for the quick response. >> >> Actually, I was able to run an xfs_repair and all was well.(took 45 minutes...) >> >> But I would love to be able to expand the XFS file system out to the max. >> >> I guess I could expand it in < 2TB increments then maybe? >> >> Thanks for the update and I will look around. >> >> I did find this which I think is related. >> >> http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2008-01/msg00097.html > > Yep, I think expanding it in, say, 1T increments should be fine, and it > should all (I think...) end up the same as if you'd done it all at once > (modulo the bug, of course...) I think we verified a while back that growing in 2T increments is an effective workaround - the bug is due to a signed 32 bit overflow. The fix has been available for some time now, but apparently hasn't made it's way into Centos yet. Cheers -- Mark Goodwin markgw@sgi.com Engineering Manager for XFS and PCP Phone: +61-3-99631937 SGI Australian Software Group Cell: +61-4-18969583 -------------------------------------------------------------