On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 09:47:30AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Recently in Fedora something changed that stops us from creating small > LVs for testing. > > An example failure with a 64 MB partitioned disk: > > # parted -s -- /dev/sda mklabel msdos mkpart primary 128s -128s > Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best performance: 128s % 65535s != 0s > # lvm pvcreate --force /dev/sda1 > /dev/sda1: Data alignment must not exceed device size. > Format-specific initialisation of physical volume /dev/sda1 failed. > Failed to setup physical volume "/dev/sda1". Interestingly the alignment properties of the virtio-scsi virtual disk has changed. On the working system: ==> /sys/block/sda/queue/minimum_io_size <== 512 ==> /sys/block/sda/queue/optimal_io_size <== 0 On the new / broken system: ==> /sys/block/sda/queue/minimum_io_size <== 33553920 ==> /sys/block/sda/queue/optimal_io_size <== 0 (all other settings were the same). I suppose this accounts for it, and it could therefore be a problem with qemu rather than LVM. Working: qemu-2.11.0-4.fc28.x86_64 Broken: qemu-2.12.0-0.5.rc1.fc29.x86_64 Alasdair Kergon asked me to run the lvm command with -vvvv and I've attached those results. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org
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