On Jul 13, 2013, at 2:59 PM, Chris Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:

> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=984236
> 
> kernel-3.10.0-1.fc20.x86_64
> 
> Should it be possible to mkfs.btrfs on a virtual LV backed by LVM thinp? I 
> can successfully create an XFS fs on the same virtual device. The virtual LV 
> is 16TB in size, I haven't tried anything smaller yet to see if that's the 
> problem. There is a dmesg attached to the bug report.
> 
> Just because it works with mkfs.xfs doesn't mean it's sane. The end goal is 
> testing glusterfs in two VMs, each with two bricks. One VM will use XFS 
> bricks and the other VM will use btrfs bricks. So it's not like I'm in any 
> sort of real trouble. At the moment, this is all being done on baremetal, not 
> within VMs (there are no VMs yet).

Nevermind. It also happens with xfs, just not every time. A VM pointed to a 
16TB qcow2 file doesn't exhibit this issue with either mkfs. So I think this 
may be an LVM thinp related bug.


Chris Murphy--
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