From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:37:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from larry.melbourne.sgi.com (larry.melbourne.sgi.com [134.14.52.130]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with SMTP id k6TNbKDW024027 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:37:32 -0700 Message-ID: <44CBE0F5.3050201@melbourne.sgi.com> Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 08:28:05 +1000 From: David Chatterton Reply-To: chatz@melbourne.sgi.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: XFS breakage in 2.6.18-rc1 References: <20060718222941.GA3801@stargate.galaxy> <20060719085731.C1935136@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> <20060724090138.C2083275@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> <20060729074803.A2222647@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> <20060729202223.GD20039@charite.de> In-Reply-To: <20060729202223.GD20039@charite.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Nathan Scott , Christian Kujau , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Nathan Scott : > >> Barry sent an xfs_repair patch to resolve this issue to the xfs@oss.sgi.com >> list yesterday; please give that a go and let us know how it fares. > > Just to let you know, I did a cvs checkout of xfs-cmds > as described on http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/source.html > > Then I saved the patch from > http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2006-07/msg00374.html using the > "Original" link on hat page. > > I build a xfs_Repair binary using that, transferred it onto an old > KLAX boot cd I had and repaired the XFS root on my laptop. > > I got 5000 files in lost and found, mostly the whole manpages from my > system. Had to reinstall a few packages to restore lost binaries, but > that's all. > > When will that horrible bug be fixed in 2.6.x? > The bug is fixed in 2.6.17.7. David