From: Ingo Franzki <ifranzki@linux.ibm.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>,
Cesare Leonardi <celeonar@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Filesystem corruption with LVM's pvmove onto a PV with a larger physical block size
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2019 09:05:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eb3fb7e3-9946-f266-815e-4b49c997e3a4@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d60d4e1c-ad67-8f3f-b159-13cb3923447f@gmail.com>
On 01.03.2019 02:24, Cesare Leonardi wrote:
> On 28/02/19 09:41, Ingo Franzki wrote:
>> Well, there are the following 2 commands:
>>
>> Get physical block size:
>> blockdev --getpbsz <device>
>> Get logical block size:
>> blockdev --getbsz <device>
>
> I didn't know the blockdev command and, to recap, we have:
> --getpbsz: physical sector size
> --getss: logical sector size
> --getbsz: blocksize used internally by the kernel
>
> getpbsz/getss correspond to physical/logical sector size reported by fdisk, smartctl, etc.
>
>> Filesystems seem to care about the physical block size only, not the logical block size.
>>
>> So as soon as you have PVs with different physical block sizes (as reported by blockdev --getpbsz) I would be very careful...
>
> I've done the test suggested by Stuart and it seems to contradict this.
> I have pvmoved data from a 512/512 (logical/physical) disk to a newly added 512/4096 disk but I had no data corruption. Unfortunately I haven't any native 4k disk to repeat the same test.
Hmm, maybe the size of the volume plays a role as Bernd has pointed out. ext4 may use -b 4K by default on larger devices.
Once the FS uses 4K block anyway you wont see the problem.
Use tune2fs -l <device> after you created the file system and check if it is using 4K blocks on your 512/512 device. If so, then you won't see the problem when moved to a 4K block size device.
>
> Here is what I've done.
> /dev/sdb: SSD with 512/512 sector size
> /dev/sdc: mechanical disk with 512/4096 sector size
>
> # blockdev -v --getss --getpbsz --getbsz /dev/sdb
> get logical block (sector) size: 512
> get physical block (sector) size: 512
> get blocksize: 4096
>
> # blockdev -v --getss --getpbsz --getbsz /dev/sdc
> get logical block (sector) size: 512
> get physical block (sector) size: 4096
> get blocksize: 4096
>
> # pvcreate /dev/sdb4
> # vgcreate vgtest /dev/sdb4
> # lvcreate -L 1G vgtest /dev/sdb4
> # mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/vgtest-lvol0
> # mkdir /media/test
> # mount /dev/mapper/vgtest-lvol0 /media/test
> # cp -a SOMEDATA /media/test/
> # umount /media/test
> # fsck.ext4 -f /dev/mapper/vgtest-lvol0
>
> Filesystem created and no error on it. Now the disk with different physical size:
>
> # pvcreate /dev/sdc1
> # vgextend vgtest /dev/sdc1
> # pvmove /dev/sdb4 /dev/sdc1
> # fsck.ext4 -f /dev/mapper/vgtest-lvol0
> # mount /dev/mapper/vgtest-lvol0 /media/test
> # ls /media/test/
>
> The fsck command reports no errors, the filesystem is mountable and the data is there.
>
> Looks like physical sector size didn't matter here. Or I'm missing something?
>
> Cesare.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-01 8:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-25 15:33 [linux-lvm] Filesystem corruption with LVM's pvmove onto a PV with a larger physical block size Ingo Franzki
2019-02-27 0:00 ` Cesare Leonardi
2019-02-27 8:49 ` Ingo Franzki
2019-02-27 14:59 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2019-02-27 17:05 ` Ingo Franzki
2019-03-02 1:37 ` L A Walsh
2019-02-28 1:31 ` Cesare Leonardi
2019-02-28 1:52 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2019-02-28 8:41 ` Ingo Franzki
2019-02-28 9:48 ` Ilia Zykov
2019-02-28 10:10 ` Ingo Franzki
2019-02-28 10:41 ` Ilia Zykov
2019-02-28 10:50 ` Ilia Zykov
2019-02-28 13:13 ` Ilia Zykov
2019-03-01 1:24 ` Cesare Leonardi
2019-03-01 2:56 ` [linux-lvm] Filesystem corruption with LVM's pvmove onto a PVwith " Bernd Eckenfels
2019-03-01 8:00 ` Ingo Franzki
2019-03-01 3:41 ` [linux-lvm] Filesystem corruption with LVM's pvmove onto a PV with " Stuart D. Gathman
2019-03-01 7:59 ` Ingo Franzki
2019-03-01 8:05 ` Ingo Franzki [this message]
2019-03-02 1:36 ` Cesare Leonardi
2019-03-02 20:25 ` Nir Soffer
2019-03-04 22:45 ` Cesare Leonardi
2019-03-04 23:22 ` Nir Soffer
2019-03-05 7:54 ` Ingo Franzki
2019-03-04 9:12 ` Ingo Franzki
2019-03-04 22:10 ` Cesare Leonardi
2019-03-05 0:12 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2019-03-05 7:53 ` Ingo Franzki
2019-03-05 9:29 ` Ilia Zykov
2019-03-05 11:42 ` Ingo Franzki
2019-03-05 16:29 ` Nir Soffer
2019-03-05 16:36 ` David Teigland
2019-03-05 16:56 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2019-02-28 14:36 ` Ilia Zykov
2019-02-28 16:30 ` Ingo Franzki
2019-02-28 18:11 ` Ilia Zykov
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