mkfs.xfs: warning - cannot set blocksize on block device

[Andrew Hill <list@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Firstly, my apologies if this has been covered before, but I'm new to 
XFS and couldn't see anything about this in the FAQ or the last couple 
of months of the mailing list archive - but I may have just missed it.

I have just upgraded my Linux machine to RedHat 7.1, and installed a 
2.4.6 kernel, which (yay!) has support for my Promise 20265 RAID 
controller. I have used the "snapshot" 2.4.6 kernel patch, and made
sure that in the Filesystems section of the kernel, both "Page Buffer 
support" and "SGI XFS filesystem support" are selected.

This seems to go okay, and the kernel boots without any apparent 
problem, including the 2 RAID devices on the Prmoise controller being 
available as /dev/hde and /dev/hdf (I am booting of a normal IDE drive.)

I have then installed the following RPMs:

  acl-1.0.7-0.i386.rpm
  acl-devel-1.0.7-0.i386.rpm
  attr-1.0.3-0.i386.rpm
  attr-devel-1.0.3-0.i386.rpm
  dmapi-0.1.1-0.i386.rpm
  dmapi-devel-0.1.1-0.i386.rpm
  xfsdump-1.0.9-0.i386.rpm
  xfsprogs-1.2.8-0.i386.rpm
  xfsprogs-devel-1.2.8-0.i386.rpm

So, I think that I should now be ready to create an XFS filesystem.

I use fdisk to create a normal primary partition on /dev/hde, of type 
83. This is fine. I can also test that the drive seems to be okay by 
creating an e2fs on this partition:

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[root@slave-i /root]# mke2fs /dev/hde1
mke2fs 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
4889248 inodes, 9770662 blocks
488533 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
299 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
16352 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
        32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
        4096000, 7962624

Writing inode tables: done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

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However, when I try to create an XFS on the partition, I get the 
following error:

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[root@slave-i /root]# mkfs -t xfs -f /dev/hde1
mkfs.xfs: warning - cannot set blocksize on block device /dev/hde1: 
Input/output error
meta-data=/dev/hde1              isize=256    agcount=38, agsize=262144 blks
data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=9770662, imaxpct=25
         =                       sunit=0      swidth=0 blks, unwritten=0
naming   =version 2              bsize=4096
log      =internal log           bsize=4096   blocks=1200
realtime =none                   extsz=65536  blocks=0, rtextents=0

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If anyone has any ideas ahout what I am doing wrong/is going wrong, it 
would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Andrew