Received: from oss.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7E9uVRw020434 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 02:56:31 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.5/8.12.3/Submit) id g7E9uVLd020433 for linux-xfs-outgoing; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 02:56:31 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from moving-picture.com (mpc-26.sohonet.co.uk [193.203.82.251]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id g7E9uMRw020405 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 02:56:22 -0700 Received: from offline.mpc.local ([172.16.20.7] helo=moving-picture.com) by moving-picture.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 17euui-0000F5-00; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 10:58:04 +0100 Message-ID: <3D5A29AC.9AA18501@moving-picture.com> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 10:58:04 +0100 From: James Pearson Organization: Moving Picture Company X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; IRIX 6.5 IP22) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Amit Agrawal, Noida" CC: Seth Mos , linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Disclaimer: This email and any attachments are confidential, may be legally X-Disclaimer: privileged and intended solely for the use of addressee. If you X-Disclaimer: are not the intended recipient of this message, any disclosure, X-Disclaimer: copying, distribution or any action taken in reliance on it is X-Disclaimer: strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received X-Disclaimer: this message in error, please notify the sender and delete all X-Disclaimer: copies from your system. X-Disclaimer: X-Disclaimer: Email may be susceptible to data corruption, interception and X-Disclaimer: unauthorised amendment, and we do not accept liability for any X-Disclaimer: such corruption, interception or amendment or the consequences X-Disclaimer: thereof. X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests= version=2.20 X-Spam-Level: Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk We've recently been trying out Medea (formerly Storage Concepts) Fibreblocks which allow you to set the block size to 512 or 2048 bytes. We made an XFS file system using the 2048 byte block size on the raid - but we got lots of SCSI disk errors when reading/writing to the file system - eventually the file system shuts down and we get a kernel oops on umount. ext2/3 file systems worked fine with the 2048 byte block size. James Pearson "Amit Agrawal, Noida" wrote: > > No I mean sector sizes which are multiple of 512 i.e 1024 or 4096, of a > logical device configured through volume management software. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Seth Mos [mailto:knuffie@xs4all.nl] > Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 3:05 PM > To: Amit Agrawal, Noida; linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com > Subject: Re: > > At 14:47 14-8-2002 +0530, Amit Agrawal, Noida wrote: > >Could you please tell me whether XFS will work with logical device having > >sector size greater than 512 bytes or not? > > Tough question, I am not sure but something might break. > > So you mean you have a device that has sectors of say 520 bytes instead of > 512 like some of the SAN appliances do? > > Cheers > > -- > Seth > It might just be your lucky day, if you only knew.