Bug#661580: mkfs.xfs fails to detect correct sector size

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@xxxxxx>]

Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Carlos, didn't you plan to look into this issue?
>
> Goswin, how do you determin that mkfs is still doing unaligned I/O
> when forcing the large sevtor size?  Once we set the sector size XFS
> can't do I/O smaller than it.

I'm writing a nbd-server that uses async IO via libaio (the linux kernel
AIO interface). This has some alignment requirements so I set nbd to use
a 4k blocksize and added asserts that all requests are page aligned
(both offset and size of the request). That worked fine for dd and
mkfs.ext4 but fails on mount in general or mkfs.xfs.

So next I added a printf("WARNING: unaligned read/write") and handled
unaligned access in the server to see how extensive the problem is. With
ext4 I get ONE single read request of 512 Byte on mount and everything
else properly 4k aligned. With xfs I get a ton of them.

If you want I can add a log of the read/write requests a mkfs.xfs and
mount generates.

MfG
        Goswin