"Bill Rugolsky Jr." <brugolsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 02:58:28PM +0000, Sean Neakums wrote: >> I tried reproducing this on my laptop, which also had an ext2 root and >> was also running 2.6.0-test8. I ran the tune2fs -j (same version and >> source as above) and updated /etc/fstab as before. Nothing seemed to >> be breaking, so I went ahead and built 2.6.0-test9 in my homedir, >> which is on a separate volume (/ and /boot are regular partitions; >> /home, /usr and /var are lvm2 volumes. The other box has a similar >> configuration.). When I ran make modules_install, messages of the >> following form began streaming on the console: > > It is a brave man that uses 1K block filesystems with stacked devices; > even /boot is 4K blocks on my machines. ;-p I don't understand. / and /boot are regular partitions, not logical volumes. All of the logical volumes except /usr/local are 4096-byte blocks. > You might want to try the latest DM patches from Joe Thornber's > site, > > http://people.sistina.com/~thornber/ > > and consult the dm-devel mail list archives. There have been > a fairly steady stream of DM patches. Note that there is a small > problem in 2.6.0-test9-dm3; the fix from Kevin Corry is below; see > the dm-devel archives. I'm a subscribed to that list. None of the fixes in -dm3 look all that critical, to my unschooled eye, and I don't use snapshots, which the patch below appears to be a fix for. > Use s->chunk_size instead of chunk_size. The latter was modified earlier in > snapshot_ctr. > > --- a/drivers/md/dm-snap.c 29 Oct 2003 15:58:59 -0000 > +++ b/drivers/md/dm-snap.c 31 Oct 2003 17:37:00 -0000 > @@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ > } > > ti->private = s; > - ti->split_io = chunk_size; > + ti->split_io = s->chunk_size; > return 0; > > bad6: > > I haven't had a chance to try it out myself. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
