Re: rescue an alien md raid5

[Harry Mangalam <harry.mangalam@uci.edu>]

that's a good idea...if we can subvert the NAS box to boot an 
alternative system.  There's no CD, but there is a USB port, so we 
could try to boot a USB ARM distro.  One problem with this is that 
there's no video system so it's all blind until we can log into it, 
unless there's some hidden video tap on the mobo.

I'll check into that - thank you for the idea.

Harry

On Monday 02 March 2009, Nagilum wrote:
> >> The docs and files on the USR web site imply that the native
> >> filesystem was originally XFS, but when i try to mount it as
> >> such, I can't:
> >
> > I heard Dave Chinner talking about this during LCA-2009.
> > If I remember correctly, there is something a bit funny about
> > structure layout and padding on the ARM and it affects XFS is
> > some strange way, and some NAS vendors 'fixed' it the wrong way,
> > so they are incompatible with mainline..... or something like
> > that.  What I really remember is ARM + XFS + NAS == BAD Vendor
> >
> > I suggest asking at xfs@oss.sgi.com
> >
> > No, those other partitions are relevant.  One was clearly for
> > swap.  The other was probably /boot.
>
> Maybe it can be salvaged using QEMU?
> There are even preconfigured ARM environments available:
> http://www.scratchbox.org/
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