[PATCH 1/2] xfsprogs: ignore stripe geom if sunit or swidth == physical sector size

[Stan Hoeppner]

On 10/29/2014 01:47 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 10/29/14 1:37 PM, Brian Foster wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 12:35:29PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>> Today, this geometry:
>>>
>>> # modprobe scsi_debug  opt_blks=2048 dev_size_mb=2048
>>> # blockdev --getpbsz --getss --getiomin --getioopt  /dev/sdd
>>> 512
>>> 512
>>> 512
>>> 1048576
>>>
>>> will result in a warning at mkfs time, like this:
>>>
>>> # mkfs.xfs -f -d su=64k,sw=12 -l su=64k /dev/sdd
>>> mkfs.xfs: Specified data stripe width 1536 is not the same as the volume stripe width 2048
>>>
>>> because our geometry discovery thinks it looks like a
>>> valid striping setup which the commandline is overriding. 
>>> However, a stripe unit of 512 really isn't indicative of
>>> a proper stripe geometry.
>>>
>>
>> So the assumption is that the storage reports a non-physical block size
>> for minimum and optimal I/O sizes for geometry detection. There was a
>> real world scenario of this, right? Any idea of the configuration
>> details (e.g., raid layout) that resulted in an increased optimal I/O
>> size but not minimum I/O size?
> 
> Stan?  :)

Yeah, it was pretty much what you pasted sans the log su, and it was a
device-mapper device:

# mkfs.xfs -d su=64k,sw=12 /dev/dm-0

--
Stan