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XFS and EVMS - Limited Success

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Subject: XFS and EVMS - Limited Success
From: "Karl M. Hegbloom" <karlheg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 23 Apr 2002 11:59:00 -0700
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On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 08:16, Stephen Lord wrote:

> We had some ioctl problem reports from mkfs which should now be fixed in
> EVMS 1.0. Someone else reported it was working. I have not tried myself.

I am using EVMS, and see:

root@juniper:~
# mkfs -t xfs /dev/evms/test 
mkfs.xfs: warning - cannot set blocksize on block device /dev/evms/test:
Invalid argument
meta-data=/dev/evms/test         isize=256    agcount=8, agsize=65536
blks
data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=524287, imaxpct=25
         =                       sunit=0      swidth=0 blks, unwritten=0
naming   =version 2              bsize=4096  
log      =internal log           bsize=4096   blocks=1200
realtime =none                   extsz=65536  blocks=0, rtextents=0

This is a 2.4.18 kernel (SMP), the evms header says it's version 1.0.0,
and the evms tools are version 1.0.0.

root@juniper:~
# mkfs.xfs -V       
mkfs.xfs version 2.0.3

Is that too old a version of mkfs.xfs?  It would be a lot easier for me
to see what version of XFS the kernel has built into it if you would
cause the "dmesg" (printk) output at startup to give a version number. 
I've given up on finding what version it is after 5 minutes of code
grepping, sorry.  Ah... dpkg --status kernel-patch-xfs tells me that
it's version "1.0.2+20020304-2".  So do I need a newer one to make XFS
work right with EVMS?

As far as EVMS itself goes, I think it's great.  I have experienced
lockups when working with snapshots that I need to explore and document
at some point (if I find some time).


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