From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Lance Reed <lreed@brightcove.com>
Cc: Tru Huynh <tru@pasteur.fr>, "'xfs@oss.sgi.com'" <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Probems with xfs_repair on large filesystem and 32bit OS.
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:28:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080610122811.GB15871@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6A32BC807C106440B7E23208F280DDAF01D3F6C8B4@bcmail1.VIDMARK.LOCAL>
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 08:07:18AM -0400, Lance Reed wrote:
> SO, I take it from what you say that that I can running any newer version of xfs progs and a 64bit host (fiber attached, easy to do this), and run xfs_repair on the 32bit XFS volumes without fear of data corruption?
> Is this because XFS is not version specific, and xfs_repair will honor the 32bit file data structures?
Yes, this is fine. All the actual filesystem structures are endian and
32/64bit clean. The log needs to be in the same endianess and had 32bit
vs 64bit problems on x86 for a while, but it needs to be recovered
before you run xfs_repair anyway.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-10 12:27 UTC|newest]
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2008-06-10 11:28 Probems with xfs_repair on large filesystem and 32bit OS Lance Reed
[not found] ` <20080610115038.GD3005@sillage.bis.pasteur.fr>
2008-06-10 12:07 ` Lance Reed
2008-06-10 12:28 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-06-10 17:07 ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-11 0:01 ` Barry Naujok
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2008-06-10 12:50 Lance Reed
2008-06-10 13:01 ` 'hch@infradead.org'
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