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
prev parent 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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