[dm-devel] [PATCH 2/2] dm thin: support for non power of 2 pool blocksize

Joe Thornber thornber at redhat.com
Tue May 1 09:41:32 UTC 2012


On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 01:33:47PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> Yes.  But imposing this restriction was motivated by and the "attempt to
> access beyond end of device" failures I saw with test_origin_unchanged
> (I shared more details about this in private mail to you and kabi on
> 4/25 -- making the pool size a multiple of the non power of 2 blocksize
> resolved that failure).

This is the wrong fix; you're just hiding the real issue.




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