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Bug 1101236

Summary: mkfs.xfs fails on sparse files
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Dan Horák <dan>
Component: xfsprogsAssignee: Eric Sandeen <esandeen>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Zorro Lang <zlang>
Severity: unspecified Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 7.0CC: eguan, esandeen, zlang
Target Milestone: rc   
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: s390x   
OS: Unspecified   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: xfsprogs-3.2.1-1.el7 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of: 1101228 Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-03-05 13:20:21 UTC Type: Bug
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oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On: 1101228    
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strace log of the mkfs.xfs run none

Description Dan Horák 2014-05-26 12:39:17 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1101228 +++

[sharkcz@devel6 tmp]$ dd if=/dev/null of=loop-file bs=512 seek=263168

0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.000263063 s, 0.0 kB/s

[sharkcz@devel6 tmp]$ mkfs.xfs -f loop-file

meta-data=loop-file              isize=256    agcount=4, agsize=8224 blks
         =                       sectsz=512   attr=2, projid32bit=1
         =                       crc=0
data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=32896, imaxpct=25
         =                       sunit=0      swidth=0 blks
naming   =version 2              bsize=4096   ascii-ci=0 ftype=0
log      =internal log           bsize=4096   blocks=853, version=2
         =                       sectsz=512   sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1
realtime =none                   extsz=4096   blocks=0, rtextents=0
existing superblock read failed: Invalid argument
mkfs.xfs: pwrite64 failed: Invalid argument


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xfsprogs-3.2.0-1.fc20.s390x

Additional information:
This problem doesn't occur on x86_64 and ppc64.

--- Additional comment from Dan Horák on 2014-05-26 08:28:45 EDT ---

same happens on RHEL-7 with xfsprogs-3.2.0-0.10.alpha2.el7.s390x
Comment 1 Dan Horák 2014-05-26 12:41:06 UTC 
Created attachment 899305 [details]
strace log of the mkfs.xfs run
Comment 2 Eric Sandeen 2014-07-01 15:39:14 UTC 
Upstream, I sent:

[PATCH 1/2 V2] xfsprogs: try to handle mkfs of a file on 4k sector device
[PATCH 2/2 V3] mkfs.xfs: don't call blkid_get_topology on existing regular files

Not merged yet.
Comment 5 Zorro Lang 2014-10-16 10:31:30 UTC 
reproduced on xfsprogs-3.2.0-0.10.alpha2.el7.s390x

+ mkfs -t xfs -f -dname=xfs.img
meta-data=xfs.img                isize=256    agcount=4, agsize=65536 blks
         =                       sectsz=512   attr=2, projid32bit=1
         =                       crc=0
data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=262144, imaxpct=25
         =                       sunit=0      swidth=0 blks
naming   =version 2              bsize=4096   ascii-ci=0 ftype=0
log      =internal log           bsize=4096   blocks=2560, version=2
         =                       sectsz=512   sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1
realtime =none                   extsz=4096   blocks=0, rtextents=0
existing superblock read failed: Invalid argument
mkfs.xfs: pwrite64 failed: Invalid argument

Test Pass on xfsprogs-3.2.1-3.el7.s390x.

Pass!!
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2015-03-05 13:20:21 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-0537.html