From: "Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart@gathman.org>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Cc: 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: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 19:12:24 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.21.1903041908110.14821@fairfax.gathman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <325bbb01-1b67-eafb-025e-4bfde1b16b54@gmail.com>
On Mon, 4 Mar 2019, Cesare Leonardi wrote:
> Today I repeated all the tests and indeed in one case the mount failed: after
> pvmoving from the 512/4096 disk to the 4096/4096 disk, with the LV ext4 using
> 1024 block size.
...
> The error happened where you guys expected. And also for me fsck showed no
> errors.
>
> But doesn't look like a filesystem corruption: if you pvmove back the data,
> it will become readable again:
...
THAT is a crucial observation. It's not an LVM bug, but the filesystem
trying to read 1024 bytes on a 4096 device. I suspect it could also
happen with an unaligned filesystem on a 4096 device.
--
Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@gathman.org>
"Confutatis maledictis, flamis acribus addictis" - background song for
a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-05 0:12 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
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 [this message]
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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