On Tue, Oct 14 2014 at 9:19pm -0400, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > dm_raid_superblock is 512. > Reading or writing this on a 512-byte sector works fine. > On a 4096-byte sector device, this fails. > > If we round up rdev->sb_size to match the block size of > the device, all IO will work correctly. > > Reported-by: "Liuhua Wang" <lwang@xxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> > > --- > this issue has been discussed already a bit. See email thread > Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix mirror device creation with lvcreate failed > I think this is the best fix. It handles boths read and writes, and (I think) > at the best level. > > Thanks, > NeilBrown > > > diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-raid.c b/drivers/md/dm-raid.c > index 4880b69e2e9e..31bdd73bc368 100644 > --- a/drivers/md/dm-raid.c > +++ b/drivers/md/dm-raid.c > @@ -858,7 +858,8 @@ static int super_load(struct md_rdev *rdev, struct md_rdev *refdev) > uint64_t events_sb, events_refsb; > > rdev->sb_start = 0; > - rdev->sb_size = sizeof(*sb); > + rdev->sb_size = roundup(sizeof(*sb), > + bdev_logical_block_size(rdev->meta_bdev)); > > ret = read_disk_sb(rdev, rdev->sb_size); > if (ret) Wouldn't it be better to use bdev_physical_block_size()? Even on a 4K device that emulates 512b logical sectors it is better to use the physical block size (4K). -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel