On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 12:10:58PM -0600, Jon Nelson wrote: > > You should be OK, there. Are you using encryption or no? > I had difficulty replicating the issue without encryption. Yes, I'm using encryption. LUKS with aes-xts-plain-sha256, and then LVM on top of LUKS. > > If you can point out how to query pgsql_tmp (I'm using a completely > > default postgres install), that would be helpful, but I don't think it > > would be going anywhere else. > > Normally it's /var/lib/pgsql/data/pgsql_tmp (or > /var/lib/postgres/data/pgsql_tmp in your case). By placing > /var/lib/{postgresql,pgsql}/data on the LUKS + ext4 volume, on both > openSUSE 11.3 and Kubuntu, I was able to replicate the problem easily, > in VirtualBox. I can give qemu a try. In both cases I was using a > 2.6.37x kernel. Ah, I'm not using virtualization. I'm running on a X410 laptop, on raw hardware. Perhaps virtualization slows things down enough that it triggers? Or maybe you're running with a more constrained memory than I? How much memory do you have configured in your VM? - Ted -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel