On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 09:38:20PM -0500, Nathan Scott wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > ... > > It's trying to read/write 512 bytes at the beginning of the file which seems > > reasonably innocuous. I double checked the man page which says that under > > 2.6, O_DIRECT writes can be aligned to 512 bytes without a problem. sbp > > comes > > out with 4096 in blocksize and 512 in sectsize when zero_old_xfs_structures() > > is called and the first error comes up, so I'm at a loss for what's going > > wrong. > > The filesystem backing the new /root/image file doesn't support direct I/O? > > cheers. The filesystem backing /root/image is xfs. Good guess though. For the record: caliban mnt # xfs_info / meta-data=/dev/root isize=256 agcount=4, agsize=25685952 blks = sectsz=4096 attr=2 data = bsize=4096 blocks=102743808, imaxpct=25 = sunit=0 swidth=0 blks naming =version 2 bsize=4096 ascii-ci=0 log =internal bsize=4096 blocks=50167, version=2 = sectsz=4096 sunit=1 blks, lazy-count=1 realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0 -Phil _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs