From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <199908230752.AA06046@mailgate1b.telekom.de> From: Heinz Mauelshagen Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM in stock kernel!? Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 9:50:18 METDST In-Reply-To: <19990822170713.A18493@ladystrange.bluehorizon.nl>; from "pamvdam@ramoth.xs4all.nl" at Aug 22, 99 5:07 pm Sender: owner-linux-lvm Errors-To: owner-linux-lvm List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: pamvdam@ramoth.xs4all.nl Cc: mge@ts1.ez-darmstadt.telekom.de, linux-lvm@msede.com Hi Pascal and all 8*) > > On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 01:14:36PM +0000, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote: > > > > Hi Pascal, > > > > saw your mail today concerned with writes beyond the end of the device, > > Have seen this a couple of times before 8*( > > > > It was a kernel problem in the block i/o layer these days not forced > > by the LVM but brougt to the surface by the heavy i/o load LVM striped > > LVs pushed to the system. > > It was a problem.... Mmmm. In 2.3.14 it still is. > > > > > Do you see the same trouble with LVM 0.7 in older kernel releases? > > 2.3.13 and the 2.3.14-pre release gave the same problem. I don't > know about earlier releases. Oops, should have been more precise 8*) I ment earlier versions because i've observed the 'beyond end of device' behaviour with 2.3.13 by myself. > Shall we bring this up to the linux kernel list? Yes please. Do it. > The MD users should > have noticed it too. Indeed there was VERY heavy I/O > on the stripes. > > BTW: 2.3.14 needed a little extra patch wrt the 2.3.13 LVM patch. Some- > body will have ported it too, if not say so, and I'll mail you the diff. > -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Systemmanagement CS-TS T-Nova Entwicklungszentrum Darmstadt Heinz Mauelshagen Otto-Roehm-Strasse 71c Senior Systems Engineer Postfach 10 05 41 64205 Darmstadt mge@ez-darmstadt.telekom.de Germany +49 6151 886-425 FAX-386 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-