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From: Ilia Zykov <mail@service4.ru>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>,
	Ingo Franzki <ifranzki@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Filesystem corruption with LVM's pvmove onto a PV with a larger physical block size
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:41:42 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <30ba3646-1562-4614-0b7a-786d01056bf8@service4.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3f94a1df-d333-70fe-56ab-3661b384e028@linux.ibm.com>

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>>
>>  smartctl -i /dev/sdb; blockdev --getbsz --getpbsz /dev/sdb
>> Device Model:     HGST HUS722T2TALA604
>> User Capacity:    2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]
>> Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
>> Rotation Rate:    7200 rpm
>> Form Factor:      3.5 inches
>> 4096
>> 512
>>
>> As you see “–getbsz” forever 4096.
> I also see logical block size to be 4096 for all devices on my system.
>> But I think it must be forever 512.
>> What does it mean?
> I have seen the following description about logical and physical block sizes somewhere in the internet:
> "Logical block sizes are the units used by the 'kernel' for read/write operations.

Kernel can but usually does not want, because reduce performance.

> Physical block sizes are the units which 'disk controllers' use for read/write operations."

Not disk controller on the motherboard, but controller inside disk. We
don't have access to it.

> 
> For the problem mentioned in this thread, the physical block size is what you are looking for.
>>

I think it is BUG in the "blockdev".
My question was:

Can this error(or similar) be related to a problem in pvmove?


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  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-28 10:41 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 [this message]
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
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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