Hi, all: I have a self-built board, cpu is MPC8548(PPC arch), kernel is based on MPC8548CDS demo board, version is 2.6.23. A SATA controller is conected to CPU via PCIX, and I have 3 disks attached to it. root@Storage:~# mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l5 -n3 /dev/sd{b,c,d} root@Storage:~# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [multipath] md0 : active raid5 sdd[3] sdc[1] sdb[0] 490234624 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/2] [UU_] [>....................] recovery = 0.8% (1990404/245117312) finish=83.3min speed=48603K/sec unused devices: <none> root@Storage:~# pvcreate /dev/md0 Physical volume "/dev/md0" successfully created root@Storage:~# vgcreate vg /dev/md0 Volume group "vg" successfully created root@Storage:~# lvcreate -L 100G -n lvtest vg Logical volume "lvtest" created root@Storage:~# mkfs.xfs -f -ssize=4k /dev/vg/lvtest Warning - device mapper device, but no dmsetup(8) found Warning - device mapper device, but no dmsetup(8) found meta-data=/dev/vg/lvtest isize=256 agcount=4, agsize=6553600 blks = sectsz=4096 attr=2 data = bsize=4096 blocks=26214400, imaxpct=25 = sunit=0 swidth=0 blks naming =version 2 bsize=4096 log =internal log bsize=4096 blocks=12800, version=2 = sectsz=4096 sunit=1 blks, lazy-count=0 realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0 root@Storage:~# mkdir tmp root@Storage:~# mount -t xfs /dev/vg/lvtest ./tmp/ Filesystem "dm-0": Disabling barriers, not supported by the underlying device XFS mounting filesystem dm-0 XFS: totally zeroed log Filesystem "dm-0": XFS internal error xlog_clear_stale_blocks(2) at line 1252 of file fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c. Caller 0xc018ec88 Call Trace: [e8ab9a60] [c00091ec] show_stack+0x3c/0x1a0 (unreliable) [e8ab9a90] [c017559c] xfs_error_report+0x50/0x60 [e8ab9aa0] [c018e84c] xlog_clear_stale_blocks+0xe4/0x1c8 [e8ab9ad0] [c018ec88] xlog_find_tail+0x358/0x494 [e8ab9b20] [c0190ba0] xlog_recover+0x20/0xf4 [e8ab9b40] [c018993c] xfs_log_mount+0x104/0x148 [e8ab9b60] [c01930f0] xfs_mountfs+0x8d4/0xd14 [e8ab9c00] [c0183f88] xfs_ioinit+0x38/0x4c [e8ab9c20] [c019bf24] xfs_mount+0x458/0x470 [e8ab9c60] [c01b087c] vfs_mount+0x38/0x48 [e8ab9c70] [c01b052c] xfs_fs_fill_super+0x98/0x1f8 [e8ab9cf0] [c0076cec] get_sb_bdev+0x164/0x1a8 [e8ab9d40] [c01af3bc] xfs_fs_get_sb+0x1c/0x2c [e8ab9d50] [c00769f8] vfs_kern_mount+0x58/0xe0 [e8ab9d70] [c0076ad0] do_kern_mount+0x40/0xf8 [e8ab9d90] [c008ee0c] do_mount+0x158/0x600 [e8ab9f10] [c008f344] sys_mount+0x90/0xe8 [e8ab9f40] [c0002320] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x3c XFS: failed to locate log tail XFS: log mount/recovery failed: error 117 XFS: log mount failed mount: mounting /dev/vg/lvtest on ./tmp/ failed: Structure needs cleaning Interestingly, if remove "-ssize=4k" option in mkfs.xfs command, it is OK root@Storage:~# mkfs.xfs -f /dev/vg/lvtest Warning - device mapper device, but no dmsetup(8) found Warning - device mapper device, but no dmsetup(8) found meta-data=/dev/vg/lvtest isize=256 agcount=4, agsize=6553600 blks = sectsz=512 attr=2 data = bsize=4096 blocks=26214400, imaxpct=25 = sunit=0 swidth=0 blks naming =version 2 bsize=4096 log =internal log bsize=4096 blocks=12800, version=2 = sectsz=512 sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=0 realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0 root@Storage:~# mount -t xfs /dev/vg/lvtest ./tmp/ Filesystem "dm-0": Disabling barriers, not supported by the underlying device XFS mounting filesystem dm-0 I don't know when "-ssize=4k" option is added, what is difference? -- The simplest is not all best but the best is surely the simplest! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html