Re: 2.6.9-mm1: LVM stopped working (dio-handle-eof.patch)

[Joseph Fannin]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 08:41:46AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 27 2004, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 26 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Mathieu Segaud <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> disait derni?rement que :
> > > > 
> > > >  > If you have time, please restore dio-handle-eof.patch and then apply the
> > > >  > below fixup, then retest.  Thanks.
> > > > 
> > > >  I had time to test this fix; it did not solve the problem. Whereas reverting
> > > >  the complete dio-handle-eof.patch solved it.
> > > 
> > > bummer.  Can you send a super-simple means by which I can demonstrate the
> > > problem?
> > 
> > Hmm, maybe round the value up to a PAGE_SIZE in length?
> 
> This feels pretty icky, but should suffice for testing. Does it make a
> difference?

    I made this change to 2.6.9-mm1 and it didn't.  vgchange still
seems to be trying to read 2048 bytes, rather than 4096 (I may not
know what I'm talking about, or even what I'm looking at, though).

-- 
Joseph Fannin
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