Re: [PATCH] - filesystem corruption on soft RAID5 in 2.4.0+ (fwd)

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:53:33PM -0600, Russell Cattelan wrote:
> Steve Lord wrote:
> 
> 
> Also Note: all of XFS's meta data writes when using LVM or MD devices 
> should be in 512byte chunks. 
> The switching sizes messeages is a bit weird as no size should be
> anything
> but 512 (meta data) or 4096 (file data)

Just a random side comment... nothing really important.

This means that XFS won't work on Linux/s390 because it has devices
that do not physically support 512 byte blocks. We had fun fixing LVM there 
which used to rely on 512byte writes too.


-Andi