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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Chip Salzenberg <chip@valinux.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: raid0 and buffers larger than PAGE_SIZE
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 15:08:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000608150821.G3886@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000607204444.A453@perlsupport.com>; from chip@valinux.com on Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 08:44:44PM -0700

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 08:44:44PM -0700, Chip Salzenberg wrote:

> I'm using raid0 under 2.2.16pre4 and I've just started observing a new
> failure mode that's completely preventing it from working: getblk(),
> and therefore refill_freelist(), is being called with a size greater
> than PAGE_SIZE.  This is triggered by e2fsck on the /dev/md0, and it's
> probably been a while since the last e2fsck, so I don't know when the
> was actually introduced.

getblk() with blocksize > PAGE_SIZE is completely illegal.  Are you
using a decent set of raid patches?

Cheers,
 Stephen
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-06-08 14:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-06-08  3:44 Chip Salzenberg
2000-06-08 14:08 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2000-06-08 19:13   ` Chip Salzenberg
2000-06-08 19:24     ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-06-08 20:20   ` Chip Salzenberg

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