Re: 3.14.4 Kernel BUG at fs/namei.c : KDE's kate + ecryptfs + BTRFS + LVM2 + LUKS

2014-05-16 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On 05/16/2014 06:36 PM, Swâmi Petaramesh wrote: > Underlying is ecryptfs over BTRFS over LVM2 over LUKS (what else ?) I recently switched one of my drives to BTRFS because I wanted transparent compression. Since I also needed encryption, I chose: BTRFS => LUKS (Device Mapper) => SCSI B

3.14.4 Kernel BUG at fs/namei.c : KDE's kate + ecryptfs + BTRFS + LVM2 + LUKS

2014-05-16 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
cess its filesystems, however KDE's Dolphin file manager is usually dead as well. Underlying is ecryptfs over BTRFS over LVM2 over LUKS (what else ?) System logs : kernel: [ cut here ] kernel: kernel BUG at fs/namei.c:2404! kernel: invalid opcode: [#1] PRE

AIX LVM support : block/partitions, kpartx, dmraid or lvm2 or ...

2013-05-11 Thread Philippe De Muyter
lace for it ? It seems that only contiguous partitions can be described. Am I mistaken ? I looked also at kpartx, but it seems to me that kpartx has the same limitations as block/partitions. Should I rather make a patch for dmraid or lvm2 or some other tool I am not aware of ? What would be the

Re: Strange LVM2/DM data corruption with 2.6.11.12

2005-09-08 Thread Chris Wright
* Alexander Nyberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Please upgrade to 2.6.12.6 (I don't remember exactly in which > 2.6.12.x it went in), it contains a bugfix that should fix what > you are seeing. 2.6.13 also has this. Yep, that was 2.6.12.4, and here's the patch: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/

Re: Strange LVM2/DM data corruption with 2.6.11.12

2005-09-08 Thread Alexander Nyberg
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 11:58:54AM +0200 Ludovic Drolez wrote: > Hi ! > > We are developing (GPLed) disk cloning software similar to partimage: it's > an intelligent 'dd' which backups only used sectors. > > Recently I added LVM1/2 support to it, and sometimes we saw LVM > restorations failing

Strange LVM2/DM data corruption with 2.6.11.12

2005-09-08 Thread Ludovic Drolez
e result of the restoration can be lead to a corrupted filesystem). If a restoration fails, just try another one and it will work... How the restoration program works: - I restore the LVM2 administrative data (384 sectors, most of the time), - I 'vgscan', 'vgchange', - open for w

Re: File corruption on LVM2 on top of software RAID1

2005-08-05 Thread Andrew Morton
"Simon Matter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > While looking at some data corruption vulnerability reports on > Securityfocus I wonder why this issue does not get any attention from > distributors. I have an open bugzilla report with RedHat, have an open > customer service request with RedHat, ha

Re: File corruption on LVM2 on top of software RAID1

2005-08-05 Thread Simon Matter
ent some money again, tried again and >> again. That's all long ago now... >> >> In my tests I get corrupt files on LVM2 which is on top of software >> raid1. >> (This is a common setup even mentioned in the software RAID HOWTO and >> has >> worked for me on

Re: File corruption on LVM2 on top of software RAID1

2005-08-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There's one fix against 2.6.12.3 which is needed, but 2.6.9 didn't have the > bug which this fix addresses. aargh, I see that it did fix it. Don't blame me. Blame people who screw up list threading by reading a mail->news gateway and hitting "reply".

Re: File corruption on LVM2 on top of software RAID1

2005-08-04 Thread Andrew Morton
g RHEL4 for new servers. My data integrity > tests gave me bad results - which I couldn't believe - and my first idea > was - of course - bad hardware. I ordered new SCSI disks instead of the > IDE disks, took another server, spent some money again, tried again and > again. That's

Re: File corruption on LVM2 on top of software RAID1

2005-08-04 Thread Simon Matter
> Once upon a time, "Simon Matter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>In my tests I get corrupt files on LVM2 which is on top of software >> raid1. >>(This is a common setup even mentioned in the software RAID HOWTO and has >>worked for me on RedHat 9 /

Re: File corruption on LVM2 on top of software RAID1

2005-08-03 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, "Simon Matter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >In my tests I get corrupt files on LVM2 which is on top of software raid1. >(This is a common setup even mentioned in the software RAID HOWTO and has >worked for me on RedHat 9 / kernel 2.4 for a long time n

File corruption on LVM2 on top of software RAID1

2005-08-03 Thread Simon Matter
of course - bad hardware. I ordered new SCSI disks instead of the IDE disks, took another server, spent some money again, tried again and again. That's all long ago now... In my tests I get corrupt files on LVM2 which is on top of software raid1. (This is a common setup even mentioned in th

[patch 016/198] oom-killer disable for iscsi/lvm2/multipath userland critical sections

2005-04-12 Thread akpm
From: Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> iscsi/lvm2/multipath needs guaranteed protection from the oom-killer, so make the magical value of -17 in /proc//oom_adj defeat the oom-killer altogether. (akpm: we still need to document oom_adj and friends in Documentation/filesystems/pr

Re: oom-killer disable for iscsi/lvm2/multipath userland critical sections

2005-04-01 Thread Dmitry Yusupov
of value "-17" (internally to the kernel it could be represented > the same way, but the /proc parsing would be more complicated). If you > prefer textual "disable" we can change this of course. > > Comments welcome. > > From: Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTE

oom-killer disable for iscsi/lvm2/multipath userland critical sections

2005-04-01 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
ated). If you prefer textual "disable" we can change this of course. Comments welcome. From: Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: oom killer protection iscsi/lvm2/multipath needs guaranteed protection from the oom-killer. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: md and RAID 5 [was Re: LVM2]

2005-01-23 Thread Neil Brown
On Friday January 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thank you all for having been so kind in your responses and help. > > However, there is one more set of questions I have. > > Does the md (software raid) have disk size or raid volume limits? 2^31 sectors for individual disks. Arrays do not have

Re: LVM2

2005-01-23 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Jan 20, 2005, at 16:40, Norbert van Nobelen wrote: RAID5 in software works pretty good (survived a failed disk, and recovered another failing raid in 1 month). Hardware is better since you don't have a boot partition left which is usually just present on one disk (you can mirror that yourself

Re: md and RAID 5 [was Re: LVM2]

2005-01-21 Thread Wakko Warner
Trever L. Adams wrote: > Thank you all for having been so kind in your responses and help. > > However, there is one more set of questions I have. > > Does the md (software raid) have disk size or raid volume limits? > > If I am using such things as USB or 1394 disks, is there a way to use > lab

md and RAID 5 [was Re: LVM2]

2005-01-21 Thread Trever L. Adams
Thank you all for having been so kind in your responses and help. However, there is one more set of questions I have. Does the md (software raid) have disk size or raid volume limits? If I am using such things as USB or 1394 disks, is there a way to use labels in /etc/raidtab and with the tools

Re: LVM2

2005-01-21 Thread Norbert van Nobelen
ardware is better since you > > don't have a boot partition left which is usually just present on one > > disk (you can mirror that yourself ofcourse). > > > > Regards, > > > > Norbert van Nobelen > > > > On Thursday 20 January 2005 20:51, you wro

Re: LVM2

2005-01-21 Thread Norbert van Nobelen
Even as LVM user, guess what I used before answering (-: On Thursday 20 January 2005 23:34, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 03:22:14PM -0700, Trever L. Adams wrote: > > PV = the device > > VG = groups of them (the RAID5 array?) > > LV = what? the file system? > > http://www.tldp.

Re: LVM2

2005-01-20 Thread Steve Lord
Trever L. Adams wrote: It is for a group. For the most part it is data access/retention. Writes and such would be more similar to a desktop. I would use SATA if they were (nearly) equally priced and there were awesome 1394 to SATA bridge chips that worked well with Linux. So, right now, I am lookin

Re: LVM2

2005-01-20 Thread Alasdair G Kergon
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 03:22:14PM -0700, Trever L. Adams wrote: > PV = the device > VG = groups of them (the RAID5 array?) > LV = what? the file system? http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/anatomy.html http://www.novell.com/products/linuxenterpriseserver8/whitepapers/LVM.pdf [Out-of-date now,

Re: LVM2

2005-01-20 Thread Jeffrey E. Hundstad
1, you wrote: I recently saw Alan Cox say on this list that LVM won't handle more than 2 terabytes. Is this LVM2 or LVM? What is the maximum amount of disk space LVM2 (or any other RAID/MIRROR capable technology that is in Linus's kernel) handle? I am talking with various people and we are l

Re: LVM2

2005-01-20 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 03:17:37PM -0700, Trever L. Adams wrote: > Second, you mentioned file systems. We were talking about ext3. I have > never used any others in Linux (barring ext2, minixfs, and fat). I had > heard XFS from IBM was pretty good. I would rather not use reiserfs. XFS is from SGI.

Re: LVM2

2005-01-20 Thread Trever L. Adams
PV = the device VG = groups of them (the RAID5 array?) LV = what? the file system? So, from what you are telling me, and the man page, 2.6.x with LVM2 can have basically any size of PV, VG, and LV I want. Am I flawed in my understanding? Thank you, Trever On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 22:02 +

Re: LVM2

2005-01-20 Thread Trever L. Adams
ursday 20 January 2005 20:51, you wrote: > > I recently saw Alan Cox say on this list that LVM won't handle more than > > 2 terabytes. Is this LVM2 or LVM? What is the maximum amount of disk > > space LVM2 (or any other RAID/MIRROR capable technology that is in > > Linu

Re: LVM2

2005-01-20 Thread Alasdair G Kergon
to LVs. Size limit depends on metadata format and the kernel: old LVM1 format has lower size limits - see the vgcreate man page. New LVM2 metadata format relaxes those limits and lets you have LVs > 2TB with a 2.6 kernel. Alasdair -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: LVM2

2005-01-20 Thread Norbert van Nobelen
just present on one disk (you can mirror that yourself ofcourse). Regards, Norbert van Nobelen On Thursday 20 January 2005 20:51, you wrote: > I recently saw Alan Cox say on this list that LVM won't handle more than > 2 terabytes. Is this LVM2 or LVM? What is the maximum amount of d

LVM2

2005-01-20 Thread Trever L. Adams
I recently saw Alan Cox say on this list that LVM won't handle more than 2 terabytes. Is this LVM2 or LVM? What is the maximum amount of disk space LVM2 (or any other RAID/MIRROR capable technology that is in Linus's kernel) handle? I am talking with various people and we are looking a