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Re: Unsupported sector size

To: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Unsupported sector size
From: Johann Lombardi <johann.lombardi@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 18:17:44 +0200
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> 16k blocksize?  What type of machine have you got there?  (i.e.
> do you know what the kernels pagesize is? - you cannot use a
> blocksize larger than your pagesize on Linux).
IA64 smp and the pagesize is 16k.

> OK, this is busted.  It looks like quite an old mkfs bug, but
> my memorys cloudy going back so far - I suspect this is a bug
> that was fixed early-2002:
>
> xfsprogs-2.0.6 (30 May 2002)
>         - ...
>         - Fix the way mkfs.xfs round downs the device when the last
>           AG is smaller than the minimum AG size.
>         - ...
>
> What does mkfs.xfs -V say for you?
OK, you are right. My xfsprog are really old (2.0.3). I have finally decided 
to upgrade this package (for 2.5.6) and it solves the problem. 
I didn't know that my xfsprogs was so old.
Thanks  for your help.

Johann


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