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From: Derek Fountain <derekfountain@lycos.co.uk>
To: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: LVM, NFS, Reiser and ext3
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 08:59:19 +0000
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On Monday 06 January 2003 10:21, you wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 09:47:53AM +0000, Derek Fountain wrote:
> > correctly written NFS transfers later, I'm seeing errors on read like:
> > Jan  6 16:26:47 beetle kernel: EXT3-fs error (device lvm(58,0)):
> > ext3_readdir: bad entry in directory #229383: rec_len is too small for
> > name_len - offset=504, inode=229395, rec_len=36, name_len=36
> > and lots and lots of:
> > Jan  6 16:29:34 beetle kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
> > Jan  6 16:29:34 beetle kernel: 3a:00: rw=0, want=629932036, limit=5242880
> > Is there reason to believe that LVM, NFS and jouralling file systems
> > don't get along?
>
> No
> Looks like there is something with your hardware
> Does corruption go away if you use physical volumes without LVM (try each
> volume of three)?

Yes. It's been running like that for 3 years 24x7 on a 2.2 kernel. Not a 
hiccup. I've made the three PVs back into normal reiserfs disks and they're 
now running happily again.

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