Re: Btrfs warnings in kernel 4.13.5

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2017-10-13 20:15 GMT+02:00 Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Those warnings aren't anything to be /too/ worried about.  They are
>> triggered when a btrfs device size isn't a multiple of the btrfs
>> sectorsize (currently 4 KiB on amd64 aka x86_64).  You can manually
>> shrink your btrfs devices the fraction to an exact 4 KiB multiple, or
>> wait a bit, and a new release of btrfs-tools should have a command to do
>> it for you.
>
>
> So it's an open question now why it was created with a device size
> that isn't divisible by 4KiB. Seems like a bad idea to make it easy to
> create virtual block devices based on 512 byte divisions, as it makes
> it easy to end up with unaligned sectors at some point if one of the
> underlying devices is an AF 512e device. Was it manually created? Or
> was it created via the OS installer? Some time ago there was a feature
> proposal for the Fedora installer being able to create bcache and
> dmcache devices, but I haven't seen anything yet.


I'm sure I created all bcache devices with a block size of 4k.
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