On 10/21/2011 04:13 PM, Yathindra wrote:
>mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb /mnt Copied some data into /mnt >dmsetup create d0 --table="0 `blockdev --getsize /dev/sdb` delay /dev/sdb 0 500" device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument Command failed
You can't create a mapped device on something while it is mounted as device-mapper needs to open it exclusively.
But as seen from above, dmsetup is failing to create a flakey/delay device when /dev/sdb has a filesystem on top of it. Is there any workaround ?
Set up the file system the way you want it on sdb first. Then unmount it and create the device-mapper devices and mount that.
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