Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262443AbUJ0PJm (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:09:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262491AbUJ0PJh (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:09:37 -0400 Received: from 66-61-159-17.dialroam.rr.com ([66.61.159.17]:52744 "EHLO nineveh.rivenstone.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262458AbUJ0PIK (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:08:10 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:03:35 -0400 From: Joseph Fannin To: Jens Axboe Cc: Andrew Morton , Mathieu Segaud , jfannin1@columbus.rr.com, agk@redhat.com, christophe@saout.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bzolnier@gmail.com Subject: Re: 2.6.9-mm1: LVM stopped working (dio-handle-eof.patch) Message-ID: <20041027150333.GA2353@samarkand.rivenstone.net> Mail-Followup-To: Jens Axboe , Andrew Morton , Mathieu Segaud , jfannin1@columbus.rr.com, agk@redhat.com, christophe@saout.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bzolnier@gmail.com References: <87oeitdogw.fsf@barad-dur.crans.org> <1098731002.14877.3.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net> <20041026123651.GA2987@zion.rivenstone.net> <20041026135955.GA9937@agk.surrey.redhat.com> <20041026213703.GA6174@rivenstone.net> <20041026151559.041088f1.akpm@osdl.org> <87hdogvku7.fsf@barad-dur.crans.org> <20041026222650.596eddd8.akpm@osdl.org> <20041027054741.GB15910@suse.de> <20041027064146.GG15910@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041027064146.GG15910@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1405 Lines: 35 On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 08:41:46AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Wed, Oct 27 2004, Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 26 2004, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Mathieu Segaud wrote: > > > > Andrew Morton disait derni?rement que : > > > > > > > > > If you have time, please restore dio-handle-eof.patch and then apply the > > > > > below fixup, then retest. Thanks. > > > > > > > > I had time to test this fix; it did not solve the problem. Whereas reverting > > > > the complete dio-handle-eof.patch solved it. > > > > > > bummer. Can you send a super-simple means by which I can demonstrate the > > > problem? > > > > Hmm, maybe round the value up to a PAGE_SIZE in length? > > This feels pretty icky, but should suffice for testing. Does it make a > difference? I made this change to 2.6.9-mm1 and it didn't. vgchange still seems to be trying to read 2048 bytes, rather than 4096 (I may not know what I'm talking about, or even what I'm looking at, though). -- Joseph Fannin jfannin1@columbus.rr.com "Bull in pure form is rare; there is usually some contamination by data." -- William Graves Perry Jr. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/