Unable to initialize Fusion I/O disk in Volume Manager when the disk has a sector size of 4096 bytes
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Description
Error Message
/var/log/messages
Sep 5 10:56:59 Node1 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fioa, sector 0
Sep 5 10:56:59 Node1 kernel: fioerr Rejecting unaligned request 0:512, device sector size is 4096
Sep 5 10:56:59 Node1 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fioa, sector 0
Sep 5 10:56:59 Node1 kernel: fioerr Rejecting unaligned request 0:512, device sector size is 4096
/etc/vx/dmpevents.log
Wed Sep 5 10:56:59.003: I/O error occurred on Path fioa belonging to Dmpnode fusionio0_0
Wed Sep 5 10:56:59.003: I/O analysis done as DMP_PATH_OKAY on Path fioa belonging to Dmpnode fusionio0_0
Wed Sep 5 10:56:59.003: I/O retry(0) on Path fioa belonging to Dmpnode fusionio0_0
Wed Sep 5 10:56:59.007: I/O error occurred on Path fioa belonging to Dmpnode fusionio0_0
Cause
Veritas Volume Manager supports disk devices that have a sector size of 512 bytes
Resolution
Use a sector size of 512 bytes.
Support for other sector sizes is being considered for a future release.
Applies To
Storage Foundation 6.0.1
Issue/Introduction
