Re: mkfs.xfs says "can't determine device size"

[Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>]

On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 15:16, Nathan Scott wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 12:26:32PM -0600, Alvaro Figueroa wrote:
> > mkfs -t xfs -f /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target8/lun0/part1 
> > 
> > mkfs.xfs: warning - cannot set blocksize on block device
> > /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target8/lun0/part1: Invalid argument
> > ...
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> 
> The device driver you're using doesn't support the BLKBSZSET ioctl.
> It should also be returning ENOTTY (rather than EINVAL) according
> to a recent discussion on linux-kernel for ioctl commands which it
> doesn't recognise.
> 
> [ Is there a FAQ entry for this one, Seth? ]
> 
> > mkfs.xfs: can't determine device size
> 
> I assume you're using mkfs from xfsprogs-2.0.0 -- in which case,
> your device driver also doesn't support the BLKGETSIZE64 ioctl.
> 
> This second one is fatal because mkfs needs to know how big your
> device is.  You should be able to make some more progress using
> a filesystem in a regular file - from a quick look in the code,
> that short-circuits out before issuing the ioctl.  Otherwise, you
> will need to contact the author for your device driver I think,
> and see if they have fixed this.

Does a mkfs with a -d size=xxxxb still do the ioctl call? Probably
since it is in the initialization code isn't it.

Steve


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