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The "test-md-and-lvm-devices" test case creates, among other things, a RAID0 array (md127) that spans two *differently sized* block devices (sda1: 20MB, lv0: 16MB). In Linux v3.14, the layout of such arrays was changed incompatibly and undetectably. If an array were created with a pre-v3.14 kernel and assembled on a v3.14+ kernel, or vice versa, data could be corrupted. In Linux v5.4, a mitigation was added, requiring the user to specify the layout version of such RAID0 arrays explicitly, as a module parameter. If the user fails to specify a layout version, the v5.4+ kernel refuses to assemble such arrays. This is why "test-md-and-lvm-devices" currently fails, with any v5.4+ appliance kernel. Until we implement a more general solution (see the bugzilla link below), work around the issue by sizing sda1 and lv0 identically. For this, increase the size of sdb1 to 24MB: when one 4MB extent is spent on LVM metadata, the resultant lv0 size (20MB) will precisely match the size of sda1. This workaround only affects sizes, and does not interfere with the original purpose of this test case, which is to test various *stackings* between disk partitions, software RAID (md), and LVM logical volumes. Related: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2005485 Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20210920052335.3358-3-lersek@redhat.com> Acked-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> [lersek@redhat.com: remove stray empty line]
Libguestfs is tools and a library for accessing and modifying guest disk images. For more information see the home page: http://libguestfs.org/ For discussion, development, patches, etc. please use the mailing list: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs To find out how to build libguestfs from source, read: docs/guestfs-building.pod http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-building.1.html man docs/guestfs-building.1 Copyright (C) 2009-2020 Red Hat Inc. The library is distributed under the LGPLv2+. The programs are distributed under the GPLv2+. Please see the files COPYING and COPYING.LIB for full license information. The examples are under a very liberal license.