Jari Ruusu skrev: > I have included one-liner patch for XFS that teaches > XFS not to send variable length I/O requests to loop > device. XFS really does not know what kind of device > is below loop device. > > I still see raid code emitting those "switching > cache buffer size" kernel messages in case #4, but > case #3 emits those messages too. Your patch definitely makes this scenario work. I ran my usual restore-and-verify-script over night with the patched xfs driver and it all seems ok. Interestingly I see a lot more "switching cache buffer size" messages than before - Especially some strange consecutive switches from 0 to 512 bytes at mount time. However, thanks a lot! Terje ______________________________________________________ Få den nye Yahoo! Messenger på http://no.messenger.yahoo.com/ Nye ikoner og bakgrunner, webkamera med superkvalitet og dobbelt så morsom - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/