From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Richard Ems <Richard.Ems@cape-horn-eng.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: xfs_growfs: XFS_IOC_FSGROWFSDATA xfsctl failed: Invalid argument
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 10:50:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A181B40.9080608@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A180FCD.9080905@cape-horn-eng.com>
Richard Ems wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm getting the error "xfs_growfs: XFS_IOC_FSGROWFSDATA xfsctl failed:
> Invalid argument" while trying to grow an XFS partition.
>
> This is on openSUSE 11.1 64 bit, with xfsprogs-2.10.2-3.1 from
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/filesystems/openSUSE_11.1/x86_64/xfsprogs-2.10.2-3.1.x86_64.rpm
The compat handlers should only matter if you're using 32 bit userspace
with a 64 bit kernel...
Are you certain that your xfsprogs userspace is 64-bit?
>
> This error is the same or looks similar to the one reported some months
> ago at http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2009-02/msg00028.html .
>
> There is apparently a fix for it, see
> http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2008-12/msg01794.html :
>
> *********************************************************
> commit 471d59103167c84f17b9bcfee22ed10b44ff206e
> Author: sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue Nov 25 21:20:10 2008 -0600
>
> [XFS] Add compat handlers for data & rt growfs ioctls
>
> The args for XFS_IOC_FSGROWFSDATA and XFS_IOC_FSGROWFSRTA
> have padding on the end on intel, so add arg copyin functions,
> and then just call the growfs ioctl helpers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@xxxxxxx>
> *********************************************************
>
> I tried different 2.6.27 versions, one 2.6.29 and one 2.6.30-rc6
> version, all gave the same error, check
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506361 for the different
> kernel versions and errors.
I don't see in that bug where you tested .29 or .30, or what the results
were...
> Is this fix still not included in Linus / openSUSE trees?
As for Linus' tree, AFAIK everything works; I can't speak to what SuSE has.
-Eric
> Or am I hitting another error?
>
> Thanks, Richard
>
>
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-23 15:01 xfs_growfs: XFS_IOC_FSGROWFSDATA xfsctl failed: Invalid argument Richard Ems
2009-05-23 15:50 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2009-05-23 16:07 ` richard.ems
2009-05-23 17:35 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-05-23 17:45 ` richard.ems
2009-05-23 18:47 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-05-23 19:25 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-05-25 9:54 ` Richard Ems
2009-06-01 14:32 ` Richard Ems
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