[linux-lvm] lvm on loopback mount problems
Heinz J . Mauelshagen
mauelshagen at sistina.com
Tue Oct 21 05:37:01 UTC 2003
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 12:35:26PM -0400, Paulson McIntyre wrote:
> I tryed the same procedure on my rh9 box; dident work for me either. I
> then used dd to create a random file the same size as the lv i had
> created, copyed the data onto the lv, copyed the data off the lv, and
> did a 'cmp'...they differ at byte1, line1.
Ouch, silent data corruption!
Please try a mainline kernel and see if this disapears.
Regards,
Heinz -- The LVM Guy --
>
> On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 04:33, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote:
> > Never seen this here.
> > Did a quick test and it works with 1.0.7 on 2.4.21 vanilla here.
> > It could be a problem with that RedHat kernel.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Heinz -- The LVM Guy --
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 05:14:31PM -0400, Montgomery, Kendal L wrote:
> > > I've seen a few things about using lvm on a loopback filesystem, but nothing
> > > concrete, so I tried it myself. Most everything works okay until I get to
> > > acutally mounting the filesystem. Here are the steps I did:
> > >
> > > [root at klmontg tmp]# dd if=/dev/zero of=fake_disk.img bs=1M count=500
> > > 500+0 records in
> > > 500+0 records out
> > > [root at klmontg tmp]# losetup /dev/loop0 fake_disk.img
> > > [root at klmontg tmp]# pvcreate /dev/loop0
> > > pvcreate -- physical volume "/dev/loop0" successfully created
> > >
> > > [root at klmontg tmp]# vgcreate /dev/vgtest /dev/loop0
> > > vgcreate -- INFO: using default physical extent size 4 MB
> > > vgcreate -- INFO: maximum logical volume size is 255.99 Gigabyte
> > > vgcreate -- doing automatic backup of volume group "vgtest"
> > > vgcreate -- volume group "vgtest" successfully created and activated
> > >
> > > [root at klmontg tmp]# lvcreate --name lv_one --size 200M /dev/vgtest
> > > lvcreate -- doing automatic backup of "vgtest"
> > > lvcreate -- logical volume "/dev/vgtest/lv_one" successfully created
> > >
> > > [root at klmontg tmp]# mke2fs /dev/vgtest/lv_one
> > > mke2fs 1.32 (09-Nov-2002)
> > > Filesystem label=
> > > OS type: Linux
> > > Block size=1024 (log=0)
> > > Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
> > > 51200 inodes, 204800 blocks
> > > 10240 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
> > > First data block=1
> > > 25 block groups
> > > 8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
> > > 2048 inodes per group
> > > Superblock backups stored on blocks:
> > > 8193, 24577, 40961, 57345, 73729
> > >
> > > Writing inode tables: done
> > > Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
> > >
> > > This filesystem will be automatically checked every 26 mounts or
> > > 180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.
> > > [root at klmontg tmp]# e2fsck /dev/vgtest/lv_one
> > > e2fsck 1.32 (09-Nov-2002)
> > > Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks...
> > > e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open
> > > /dev/vgtest/lv_one
> > >
> > > The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
> > > filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
> > > filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
> > > is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
> > > e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
> > >
> > > [root at klmontg tmp]# e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/vgtest/lv_one
> > > e2fsck 1.32 (09-Nov-2002)
> > > e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open
> > > /dev/vgtest/lv_one
> > >
> > > The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
> > > filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
> > > filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
> > > is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
> > > e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
> > >
> > > [root at klmontg tmp]# mount /dev/vgtest/lv_one /mnt
> > > mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> > > [root at klmontg tmp]# mount -t ext2 /dev/vgtest/lv_one /mnt
> > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/vgtest/lv_one,
> > > or too many mounted file systems
> > >
> > > As you can see, one the filesystem was made, nothing else works. I can't
> > > fsck the filesystem on the new logical volume, or mount it. This is
> > > obviously a problem since, well, it's useless unless I can mount it.
> > >
> > > I'm using RedHat 9 with the 2.4.20-20.9 kernel. I've also tried this on
> > > RedHat 8 on another box. I got the latest version of util-linux which is
> > > 2.11z and compiled that (in case it was a possible bug in mount 2.11y which
> > > comes with redhat). I'm using lvm 1.0.3-12 that comes with redhat 9. I
> > > have not tried getting the latest lvm tools. That's my next step...
> > >
> > > Anyone else had this problem, or tried doing this? The reason I wanted to
> > > do this in the first place is so I can test snapshots. I want to be able to
> > > have a filesystem which is static, that I will then take a snapshot of, then
> > > change things on it, and then use the snapshot to bring it back to it's
> > > original form. I know there is some work on union filesystems or
> > > translucent filesystems, and such things, but none of it seems mature
> > > enough, so this solution seemed like it might work until I hit this snag.
> > >
> > > Is anyone else doing this (lvm on loopback)? Does anyone have it working
> > > correctly? Am I doing something wrong? Do I need a different version of
> > > something?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for any help.
> > >
> > > Kendal.
> > >
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