Bug 139420 – mkfs.* files don't all work on new Logical Volumes

Bug 139420 - mkfs.* files don't all work on new Logical Volumes

Summary:	mkfs.* files don't all work on new Logical Volumes

Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	device-mapper (Show other bugs)
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Version:	4.0
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Alasdair Kergon
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Blocks:	143501
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Reported:	2004-11-15 17:00 EST by Jim Parsons
Modified:	2010-01-11 21:14 EST (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2006-08-03 14:55:40 EDT
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Description Jim Parsons 2004-11-15 17:00:32 EST

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Description of problem:
When making VFAT or MSDOS or JFS or REISER or XFS Filesystems on a
system that supports these types, the mkfs app returns an error
stating that it does not know the Drive Geometry. lvmguy confirmed this.

I know that these FS types are not supported in RHEL3, but I am unable
to find the proper OS version in the bugzilla create form :-( Hoping
this will at least keep track of this issue.

BTW, ext3 and ext2 both work fine.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create LV
2.try and create one of the FS's above
3.
    

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Comment 1 Alasdair Kergon 2004-12-21 12:13:24 EST

So we probably ought to supply a fake geometry.

Comment 2 Alasdair Kergon 2006-08-03 14:55:40 EDT

An option is now available upstream to specify what drive geometry you want a
given dm device to return: dmsetup setgeometry.  If no geometry was supplied
zeros are returned, as per the man page.

In Fedora/RHEL5 but it has not been backported to RHEL4.

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