Hi Dave
On Thursday 12 May 2005 02:40, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 01:57:12PM +0200, Leon Vismer wrote:
> > Hi Dave
> >
> > I did the following:
> >
> > # parted /dev/sdc
> > parted> mklabel gpt
> > parted> mkpart primary 0 2384080
> > parted> quit
> >
> > I saw the following in tail /var/log/messages
> >
> > May 11 13:37:40 mail kernel: program parted is using a deprecated SCSI
> > ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO
> > May 11 13:37:50 mail kernel: sym1:4:0:phase change 2-7 16@01b75f60
> > resid=10.
> >
> > # xfs_check /dev/sdc1 (gives the following)
> >
> > bad sb magic # 0xb0b25aab in ag 30
> > bad sb version # 0x9d8b in ag 30
> > bad agf magic # 0x9be1c556 in ag 30
> > bad agf version # 0xf2c55d8a in ag 30
> > bad agi magic # 0xe0467f8a in ag 30
> > bad agi version # 0xb4f92355 in ag 30
>
> .....
>
> Looks like binary file data in AG 30 and 31. Given that mkfs
> probably gave you 32 AGs in your filesystem, these 2 AGs are the
> only ones that lie totally above the 2TiB filesystem offset.
>
> From this, I'm almost certain that accesses to blocks > 2TiB are
> wrapping back to block zero. Can you rebuild a kernel yourself
> so we are certain that it is built with CONFIG_LBD=y?
>
I will do this,
> Hmmm - just a random though - the SCSI protocol is limited to
> addressing 2^32 sectors, which is 2TiB on a 512 byte sector
> size device. You're trying to address a 2.4TiB SCSI device -
> what sector size is your RAID controller using? If you
> set it to 1k or 2k and use the mkfs option "-s size=xxxx"
> do you see this same problem?
>
I tried mkfs.xfs -s size=1024 -f /dev/sdc1 and xfs_check returned the same
info. I also tries size=2048 and size=4096, both with the same results
Thanks
--
Leon
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
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