Re: "bio too big" error

Wil Reichert
2002-12-11T03:31:22Z

Exact error with debug is:

darwin:/a01/mp3s/Skinny Puppy/Too Dark Park# ogg123 -q 01\ -\
Convulsion.ogg
bio too big device ide0(3,4) (256 > 255)
Call Trace: [<c020055e>] [<e09ff46d>] [<e09ff558>] [<e09ff5f5>]
[<c020050a>] [<c02005f4>] [<c017048e>] [<c0170a79>] [<c0187770>]
[<c01472e6>] [<c0187770>] [<c0140edd>] [<c01977fc>] [<c01473e4>]
[<c01475be>] [<c0137ac8>] [<c0137e60>] [<c0138124>] [<c0137e60>]
[<c01381ca>] [<c014eadb>] [<c01094cb>]
[<e09def98>] [<c01113bf>] [<c0110ac2>] [<c014ebce>] [<c014ee6e>]
[<c010967f>]

I'm guessing its perhaps a 2.5 / lvm issue? Here's 'vgdisplay -v' in
case:

Finding all volume groups
Finding volume group "cheese_vg"
--- Volume group ---
VG Name cheese_vg
System ID darwin1025684717
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 6
Metadata Sequence No 1
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 256
Cur LV 1
Open LV 1
Max PV 256
Cur PV 5
Act PV 5
VG Size 330.05 GB
PE Size 16.00 MB
Total PE 21123
Alloc PE / Size 21123 / 330.05 GB
Free PE / Size 0 / 0
VG UUID WF3vAx-k1r3-NUjU-az7z-I4SM-oorx-rvoYSt

--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/cheese_vg/blah
VG Name cheese_vg
LV UUID 000000-0000-0000-0000-0000-0000-000000
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 330.05 GB
Current LE 21123
Segments 7
Allocation next free
Read ahead sectors 1024
Block device 254:0

--- Physical volumes ---
PV Name /dev/discs/disc1/disc
PV Status allocatable
Total PE / Free PE 4769 / 0

PV Name /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
PV Status allocatable
Total PE / Free PE 7361 / 0

PV Name /dev/ide/host2/bus1/target0/lun0/disc
PV Status allocatable
Total PE / Free PE 5961 / 0

PV Name /dev/discs/disc0/part4
PV Status allocatable
Total PE / Free PE 2431 / 0

PV Name /dev/discs/disc4/disc
PV Status allocatable
Total PE / Free PE 601 / 0

Wil

On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 21:44, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Wil Reichert wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm getting a "bio too big" error with 2.5.50. I've got a 330G lvm2
> > partition formatted with ext3 using the -T largefile4 parameter.
> > Everything seems ok at first, but any sort of access will die very
> > unhappily with said error messsage after about 10 seconds of operation
> > or so. The only google search results are the patch submission. Eeek.
> >
>
> How odd.
>
> Please send the full diagnostic output.
>
> And add this:
>
>
> --- 25/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c~a Tue Dec 10 18:42:54 2002
> +++ 25-akpm/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c Tue Dec 10 18:43:13 2002
> @@ -1921,6 +1921,7 @@ end_io:
> bdevname(bio->bi_bdev),
> bio_sectors(bio),
> q->max_sectors);
> + dump_stack();
> goto end_io;
> }
>
>
> _
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