Re: data corruption using raid0+lvm2+jfs with 2.6.0-test3

From: Neil Brown
Date: Sat Aug 16 2003 - 03:07:15 EST


On Friday August 15, mfedyk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 09:05:58AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
> > On Tuesday August 12, akpm@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > Tupshin Harper <tupshin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > raid0_make_request bug: can't convert block across chunks or bigger than
> > > > 8k 12436792 8

> >
> > Probably the simplest solution to this is to put in calls to
> > bio_split, which will need to be strengthed to handle multi-page bios.
> >
> > The policy would be:
> > "a client of a block device *should* honour the various bio size
> > restrictions, and may suffer performance loss if it doesn't;
> > a block device driver *must* handle any bio it is passed, and may
> > call bio_split to help out".
> >
>
> Any progress on this?

No, and I doubt there will be in a big hurry, unless I come up with an
easy way to make lvm-over-raid0 break instantly instead of eventually.

I think that for now you should assume tat lvm over raid0 (or raid0
over lvm) simply isn't supported. As lvm (aka dm) supports striping,
it shouldn't be needed.

NeilBrown
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