Kevin Corry wrote:
On Thursday 01 April 2004 20:46, Ji Haitao wrote:
I create a MD having 100 targets with dmsetup. IO error occurs when I
access the 100th target. My operation steps are :
1.#create md
sh> dmsetup create vd1 dmtable1
2.
#access the 100th target
sh> dd bs=512 count=10 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/vd1 seek=51380224
#errors happen
dd: writing `/dev/mapper/vd1': Input/output error
1+0 records in
0+0 records out
I ran your 100-target table on one of my systems. Did a dd of the entire
device with no I/O errors. I'm running device-mapper.1.00.08 on a 2.6.5-rc3
kernel.
If I only have 99 targets in dmtable1, everything is OK when I access
the 99th target. Why? If device-mapper can support more than 100 targets
in 1 MD ?
The configuration of my Linux host is:
CPU: P4 1.4G
MEM: 512M
Kernel: 2.4.21
device-mapper.1.00.05
dd (fileutils) 4.1.9
1.00.05 is a bit out-of-date. I'd suggest upgrading to device-mapper.1.00.09
(upgrade both the tools and the kernel patches) and see if the problem
persists.
Thank Kevin Corry very much!
I upgraded my device-mapper from 1.00.05 to 1.00.09 and everything is OK
now.
I did more tests and verified that device-mapper.1.00.09 can support
more than 204,800 linear targets on a linux host with 128M RAM and work
well. When I tried to add 2,048,000 targets, dmsetup told me the memory
was not enough, but device-mapper did not crash. I think this is OK.
