On Sat, Nov 30 2013 at 9:28am -0500, Vladimir Smolensky <arizal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, the device broke after about a day: > > dmesg: > > [83086.878182] device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new > metadata block > [83088.879861] device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new > metadata block > [83089.414700] device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new > metadata block > [83089.414706] device-mapper: cache: could not commit metadata for accurate > status > [83090.881533] device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new > metadata block > [83092.883142] device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new > metadata block > [83094.884719] device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new > metadata block > [83096.886355] device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new > metadata block > [83097.712195] device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new > metadata block > [83097.712200] device-mapper: cache: could not commit metadata for accurate > status > [83098.283947] device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new > metadata block > [83098.283952] device-mapper: cache: could not commit metadata for accurate > status > [83098.729396] device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new > metadata block > [83098.729401] device-mapper: cache: could not commit metadata for accurate > status > > dmsetup status: > storage: 0 40963653632 cache 249856/249856 26968230 2678513 711227 30042060 > 0 248746 248729 0 1 writeback 2 migration_threshold 100000000 4 > random_threshold 4 sequential_threshold 10000000 > > Obviously the metadata partition is full but accourding to the formula I > use it should be more than enough => 4 MB + ( 16 bytes * nr_blocks ) I get > 13341184 ~ 13MB and metadata partiton is 1024MB > > device sizes: > # blockdev --report > RO RA SSZ BSZ StartSec Size Device > rw 256 512 4096 0 26843414528 /dev/sda > rw 256 512 4096 2048 4094689280 /dev/sda1 > rw 256 512 4096 7999488 22746759168 /dev/sda2 > rw 2048 512 4096 0 20973392756736 /dev/sdb > rw 2048 512 4096 2048 20973390659584 /dev/sdb1 > rw 2048 512 4096 0 2397799710720 /dev/sdc > rw 2048 512 4096 2048 1023410176 /dev/sdc1 > rw 2048 512 4096 2000896 2396774203392 /dev/sdc2 > rw 2048 512 512 0 20973390659584 /dev/dm-0 > > What am I doing wrong? Not clear yet. Something is causing you to run out of metadata blocks. Please provide the output of 'dmsetup table'. Last time you did the metadata device that was provided to the cache target was _not_ 1024MB. Mike -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
