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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: mount problem with xfs
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:50:00 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <453CC888.2070806@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061023094634.GA8449@jdc>

Jason White wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 08:26:13AM +0100, satish kumar wrote:
>> I formatted a partition of size 5GB with xfs block size=16K
>> I am not able to mount
> 
> Block size must be <= page size under Linux (see the XFS FAQ).
> 
> The page size is 4k for x86, 8k for ia64; the FAQ explains further.

Looking at system messages would probably have yielded something like this:

"filesystem with block size 16384 bytes.  only pagesize (4096) or less will 
currently work."

looking at kernel messages after a failed mount is always a good idea.

-Eric

      reply	other threads:[~2006-10-23 13:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-23  7:26 mount problem with xfs satish kumar
2006-10-23  9:46 ` Jason White
2006-10-23 13:50   ` Eric Sandeen [this message]

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