Re: mkfs.xfs on EVMS Volume forgot the releases used

[Oliver Jehle <oliver.jehle@monex.li>]

Got Answer from the evms team... 
hey fix the BLKGETSIZE64 problem !!


http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=1343124

thanks for helping

oliver



On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 15:29, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 21 Mar 2002, Oliver Jehle wrote:
> 
> > > ioctl(5, 0x80041272, 0xbfffe124)        = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
> > > write(2, "mkfs.xfs: can\'t determine device"..., 38mkfs.xfs: can't
> > > determine device size
> > > ) = 38
> > > _exit(1)                                = ?
> 
> Ok, it looks like the BLKGETSIZE64 ioctl is failing.  The very latest
> mkfs.xfs will fall back to BLKGETSIZE if this happens; I guess we need to
> update what's on oss.
> 
> You should suggest to the evms folks that they implement BLKGETSIZE64, but
> in the meantime this patch will fix things for you:
> 
> --- /usr/tmp/TmpDir.30077-0/cmd/xfsprogs/libxfs/init.c_1.12	Thu Mar 21
> 08:28:40 2002
> +++ /usr/tmp/TmpDir.30077-0/cmd/xfsprogs/libxfs/init.c_1.13	Thu Mar 21
> 08:28:40 2002
> @@ -156,11 +156,19 @@
>  		exit(1);
>  	}
>  	error = ioctl(fd, BLKGETSIZE64, &size);
> -	/* BLKGETSIZE64 returns size in bytes */
> -	size = size >> 9;
> -	if (error < 0) {
> -		fprintf(stderr, "%s: can't determine device size\n",
> progname);
> -		exit(1);
> +	if (error >= 0) {
> +		/* BLKGETSIZE64 returns size in bytes not 512-byte blocks
> */
> +		size = size >> 9;
> +	} else {
> +		/* If BLKGETSIZE64 fails, try BLKGETSIZE */
> +		unsigned long tmpsize;
> +		error = ioctl(fd, BLKGETSIZE, &tmpsize);
> +		if (error < 0) {
> +			fprintf(stderr, "%s: can't determine device
> size\n",
> +				progname);
> +			exit(1);
> +		}
> +		size = (__uint64_t)tmpsize;
>  	}
> 
>  	close(fd);
> 
> 
> 
> -Eric
>