On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 05:36:47PM -0500, Melissa Terwilliger wrote:
>
> I have a dual opteron SuSE 9 SLES machine running 2.6.9 kernel. The
I guess that means you built your own kernel (since SLES9 is a
2.6.5 based kernel). Did you enable CONFIG_LBD?
> I can create the partitions using parted & when I mount the two
> partitions they show up correctly as 2.6 TB each and they seem to be
> working perfectly. When I reboot the system I get the error:
> kernel:XFS:size check 2 failed in the kernel log and the mount command
> came back bad superblock on /dev/sdb1. I can no longer mount the
XFS does a check on mount to make sure that the last sector on the
device is actually accessible (ie. does a read of the last 512 bytes).
For your kernel, this read is giving an error, so XFS doesn't trust
the device and fails the mount.
> drives. I tried doing a xfs_repair to fix the drive and I can mount
> it again, but it only shows up as 513GB after that. Then I have to go
Not sure I can explain that bit. I wouldn't have expected repair
to do that even if the device driver is doing funky things.
> into parted again to delete the partition and recreate it. Again it
> works until I reboot whether or not I have it set to mount in the fstab
> or to mount by hand later.
>
> When I format the drive as ext3 I don't have this problem and it is 100%
> stable. It only looses the information when I use xfs. I'm sure I'm just
> missing something but I'm not certain what.
Hmm. ext3 wont be doing the final sector read check I expect... so,
it works fine (and the odds of allocating something at the high end
of the device is unlikely, during a simple test like this).
> Basically this is what I am doing to create the partitions:
>
> #parted /dev/sdb
> #mkpart primary xfs 0.0 2622488.000
I don't know much about parted, but there was a report on the lbd
list the other day - maybe check the archive for that list, I can't
remember what the solution was there off the top of my head.
> I can mount and unmount this device repeatedly with no problems until
> I reboot.
Very odd. I suspect its more likely to be a driver/partition table
problem rather than an XFS problem though.
cheers.
--
Nathan
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