When specifying a too-small agcount with stripe geometry, mkfs.xfs can fail with a somewhat unexpected message: $ mkfs.xfs -f -d file,name=fsfile,size=9764864000b,agcount=31,su=512k,sw=20 Allocation group size (314995613) is not a multiple of the stripe unit (128) This strikes me as especially odd because normally, mkfs.xfs tries to fix up the agsize to be a stripe multiple. The only way we get to the above error message is if ag _size_ is out of bounds; exiting with an error about alignment rather than about size seems odd. Maybe below is too clever, but if by the time we've decided that agsize is out of bounds after rounding it both up and down, as necessary, to get to a stripe-width multiple, calling validate_ag_geometry() will give us the same standard message as if we had specified no stripe geometry: $ mkfs/mkfs.xfs -f -d file,name=fsfile,size=9764864000b,agcount=31,su=512k,sw=20 agsize (314995613b) too big, maximum is 268435455 blocks Usage: mkfs.xfs ... $ mkfs/mkfs.xfs -f -d file,name=fsfile,size=9764864000b,agcount=31 agsize (314995613b) too big, maximum is 268435455 blocks Usage: mkfs.xfs ... Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/mkfs/xfs_mkfs.c b/mkfs/xfs_mkfs.c index 5445b6f..1f829c5 100644 --- a/mkfs/xfs_mkfs.c +++ b/mkfs/xfs_mkfs.c @@ -2174,9 +2174,12 @@ _("size %s specified for log subvolume is too large, maximum is %lld blocks\n"), if (nodsflag) { dsunit = dswidth = 0; } else { - fprintf(stderr, -_("Allocation group size (%lld) is not a multiple of the stripe unit (%d)\n"), - (long long)agsize, dsunit); + /* + * agsize is out of bounds, this will + * print nice details & exit. + */ + validate_ag_geometry(blocklog, dblocks, + agsize, agcount); exit(1); } } _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs