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Re: XFS and EVMS - Limited Success

To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: XFS and EVMS - Limited Success
From: Oliver Jehle <oliver.jehle@xxxxxxxx>
Date: 24 Apr 2002 07:07:13 +0200
Cc: "Karl M. Hegbloom" <karlheg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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there is a patch for evms implementing the BLKSETSZ64 call... have a
look in the evms mailing list... 



On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 21:12, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 13:59, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> > 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
> 
> That's not really a problem.  It just means that the BLKSETSZ ioctl is
> not supported by evms; for now, anyway, xfs can live without it.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Well, there are 2 flavors of XFS - releases, and cvs snapshots (this
> includes any patch you find on oss.sgi.com that's NOT under a
> "Release-X" directory.)  It would have been a good idea to hard code a
> release version into the releases, yes.  Sorry about that.
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Sounds like you got it from debian, then - and I guess they got it from
> release 1.0.2, and maybe tweaked it a bit?
> 
> I would suggest getting patches + userspace from under the Release-1.1,
> if you're looking for a set of things that are known to work well
> together.  However, there isn't anything inherently wrong with the
> combination you have now.
> 
> -Eric
> 
> -- 
> Eric Sandeen      XFS for Linux     http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
> sandeen@xxxxxxx   SGI, Inc.
> 



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