Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Jun 2002 01:42:52 +0200 | Subject | Re: /proc/partitions broken in 2.5.23 | From | Anders Gustafsson <> |
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On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 01:21:40AM +0200, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > > I got a bug report about an issue with LVM in 2.5.22-dj1, which turns > > out to be caused by broken /proc/partitions in mainline. > > > > (davej@mesh:davej)$ cat /proc/partitions > > major minor #blocks name > > > > 8 0 0 sda > > 22 0 1515870810 hdc > > > > Note the huge numbers in hex are 0x5a5a5a5a, so something > > seems to be getting poisoned somewhere. > > Is this LVM? > > I don't see how LVM could produce such values. > (And in fact LVM does not even compile, so only a patched LVM > could produce anything at all.)
Me neither. And as a datapoint: with my lvm-cleanup-patch I get correct size-values for all my partitions (but, yes, all 0-sized LVs shows). But there is a problem with my /proc/partitions, i starts with 2 pages of garbage (8k). Is this some kind of overflow problem as lvm creates 256 entries?
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