Re: When LVM-0.9.1beta7 will be merged to XFS cvs tree?

[Ragnar Kjørstad <xfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 10:17:47AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> All block devices in a XFS kernel need a special patch to add an ioctl
> to set the logical block size. The original poster probably didn't add
> that ioctl to his new hacked in LVM; which will cause all kinds of 
> problems with xfs user tools and also probably file system corruption.

Is there a patch to add this ioctl to lvm?

Exactly what filesystem corruption will it cause, and under what
circumstances?

If this is serious, maybe mkfs.xfs should refuse to build a filesystem
on a device that doesn't support the ioctl?



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Ragnar Kjorstad
Big Storage