Re: Trying to attach a cache drive gives "invalid argument"

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I figured it out. The backing drives have a 512B sector size, and I
used 4k with the cache drive. I'm shocked they don't use 4k, they're
all relatively recent WD blacks. I thought they all transitioned years
and years ago.
Thanks anyways.

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 1:07 PM Eric Wheeler <bcache@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 9 Dec 2019, Nathan Dehnel wrote:
>
> > root@gentooserver /home/nathan # blockdev --report /dev/bcache0
> > RO    RA   SSZ   BSZ   StartSec            Size   Device
> > rw   256   512  4096          0   1000203083776   /dev/bcache0
> > root@gentooserver /home/nathan # blockdev --report /dev/md0
> > RO    RA   SSZ   BSZ   StartSec            Size   Device
> > rw   256   512  4096          0     14255390720   /dev/md0
> > root@gentooserver /home/nathan # blockdev --report /dev/sda1
> > RO    RA   SSZ   BSZ   StartSec            Size   Device
> > rw   256   512  4096       2048   1000203091968   /dev/sda1
> > root@gentooserver /home/nathan # bcache-super-show /dev/md0
> > sb.magic                ok
> > sb.first_sector         8 [match]
> > sb.csum                 E9D560726742DDAB [match]
> > sb.version              3 [cache device]
> >
> > dev.label               (empty)
> > dev.uuid                cf8bc992-9797-4f47-8d3c-78731f5d1c2e
> > dev.sectors_per_block   8   <<<
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> > dev.sectors_per_bucket  1024
> > dev.cache.first_sector  1024
> > dev.cache.cache_sectors 27841536
> > dev.cache.total_sectors 27842560
> > dev.cache.ordered       yes
> > dev.cache.discard       no
> > dev.cache.pos           0
> > dev.cache.replacement   0 [lru]
> >
> > cset.uuid               45511b33-6bb8-42d5-a255-3de1749f8dda
> > root@gentooserver /home/nathan # bcache-super-show /dev/sda1
> > sb.magic                ok
> > sb.first_sector         8 [match]
> > sb.csum                 7D8A76D84F264724 [match]
> > sb.version              1 [backing device]
> >
> > dev.label               (empty)
> > dev.uuid                d4d2b9d6-077d-4328-b2cd-14f6db259955
> > dev.sectors_per_block   1   <<<
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> I think this is the issue.
>
> Assuming your cache doesn't have data on it yet, try this:
>         make-bcache --block 4k -B /dev/sdX1
>
> --
> Eric Wheeler
>
>
>
> > dev.sectors_per_bucket  1024
> > dev.data.first_sector   16
> > dev.data.cache_mode     0 [writethrough]
> > dev.data.cache_state    0 [detached]
> >
> > cset.uuid               4ae1adfc-b345-419f-9ce0-b450854370b0
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 7:15 PM Eric Wheeler <bcache@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, 9 Dec 2019, Nathan Dehnel wrote:
> > >
> > > > [ 9651.101227] bcache: bch_cached_dev_attach() Couldn't attach sda1:
> > > > block size less than set's block size
> > >
> > > What do these report:
> > >
> > > blockdev --report /dev/bcache0
> > > blockdev --report /dev/sdX     # bcache cache dev
> > > blockdev --report /dev/sdY     # bcache bdev
> > >
> > >
> > > bcache-super-show /dev/sdX # bcache cache dev
> > > bcache-super-show /dev/sdY # bcache bdev
> > >
> > > --
> > > Eric Wheeler
> > >
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 6:30 PM Eric Wheeler <bcache@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Mon, 9 Dec 2019, Nathan Dehnel wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > root@gentooserver / # echo 45511b33-6bb8-42d5-a255-3de1749f8dda >
> > > > > > /sys/block/bcache0/bcache/attach
> > > > > > -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
> > > > >
> > > > > What does `dmesg` say?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Eric Wheeler
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > How should I fix this?
> > > > > >
> > > >
> >



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