On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 12:58:23PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> On 1/5/17 12:02 PM, Xingbo Wu wrote: >> > /dev/sdf is a 3TB hard drive. >> > It has 2930266584 blocks, as reported in `badblocks -wsv /dev/sdf`: >> > Checking for bad blocks in read-write mode >> > From block 0 to 2930266583 >> >> 2930266583 x 1024 == 3000592980992 >> >> I'd rather see what /proc/partitions and/or blockdev says about it... > > From the badblocks manpage, > > "-b block_size: Specify the size of blocks in bytes. The default is 1024." > > (So far so good.) > >> > However mkfs.xfs reports a larger block count: >> > `sudo mkfs.xfs /dev/sdf`: >> > meta-data=/dev/sdf isize=512 agcount=4, agsize=183141662 blks >> > = sectsz=4096 attr=2, projid32bit=1 >> > = crc=1 finobt=1, sparse=0, rmapbt=0 >> > data = bsize=4096 blocks=732566646, imaxpct=5 >> > = sunit=0 swidth=0 blks >> > naming =version 2 bsize=4096 ascii-ci=0 ftype=1 >> > log =internal log bsize=4096 blocks=357698, version=2 >> > = sectsz=4096 sunit=1 blks, lazy-count=1 >> > realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0 >> >> 732566646 x 4k blocks == 3000592982016 bytes >> >> Ok, that is 1024 bytes bigger. But the weird thing is that >> mkfs.xfs actually writes the last block, and fails if that fails. >> >> So let's start with what /proc/partitions says, as well as >> >> # blkdev --getsize --getsize64 /dev/sdf >> >> -Eric >> >> > It later leads to IO error: >> > `dmesg`: >> > [1807875.741674] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdf, sector 2930266664 >> > [1807875.741732] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdf, sector 2930266664 > > The kernel complains about "sector 2930266664", which is in 512-byte blocks. > > 2930266664 * 512 = 1500296531968, or halfway across your 3TB disk. > > Makes sense since the log generally ends up halfway across the disk. > Not sure if there's any output before 1807875.741674 but this sort of > looks like a disk error or something? > I grepped "sdf" from dmesg: [ 7.158847] sd 0:0:6:0: [sdf] 5860533168 512-byte logical blocks: (3.00 TB/2.73 TiB) [ 7.158851] sd 0:0:6:0: [sdf] 4096-byte physical blocks [ 7.259937] sd 0:0:6:0: [sdf] Write Protect is off [ 7.259943] sd 0:0:6:0: [sdf] Mode Sense: 9b 00 10 08 [ 7.282316] sd 0:0:6:0: [sdf] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and FUA [ 7.418959] sd 0:0:6:0: [sdf] Attached SCSI disk [1807850.471959] XFS (sdf): Mounting V5 Filesystem [1807850.605057] XFS (sdf): Ending clean mount [1807875.741657] sd 0:0:6:0: [sdf] tag#0 UNKNOWN(0x2003) Result: hostbyte=0x07 driverbyte=0x00 [1807875.741670] sd 0:0:6:0: [sdf] tag#0 CDB: opcode=0x8a 8a 08 00 00 00 00 ae a8 52 28 00 00 00 08 00 00 [1807875.741674] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdf, sector 2930266664 [1807875.741732] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdf, sector 2930266664 [1807875.742306] XFS (sdf): metadata I/O error: block 0xaea85228 ("xlog_iodone") error 5 numblks 64 [1807875.742369] XFS (sdf): xfs_do_force_shutdown(0x2) called from line 1200 of file fs/xfs/xfs_log.c. Return address = 0xffffffffa024090c Earlier I tried to format the disk with ext4. It also had similar errors. I thought it was the disk's problem. Would that be something wrong with mkfs' math? I will try ext4 again and let you know if I found something relevant. -- Regards, Wu, Xingbo (吴兴博) <wuxb45@xxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html