Re: [Bug 267] New: pwrite64 failed on 1.2 TB evms volume

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 10:36:51AM -0500, Nathan Straz wrote:
> ...
> Perhaps EVMS isn't reporting the size of the device correctly.  
> 
> Try running `strace mkfs.xfs -f /dev/evms/SYSTEM` and add the output to
> the bug.

Unfortunately strace doesn't decode ioctl's, so we probably
wont get much information out of this - the device size is
clearly wrong though, so unlikely this is an XFS problem.

> BTW, why use EVMS?  IIRC, it was discontinued after it lost the race for
> 2.5.

EVMS now exists as a userspace implementation above the DM layer,
I believe, so it wasn't discontinued (just kinda redirected).

cheers.

-- 
Nathan