From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Mon, 23 Oct 2006 06:50:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.168.28]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id k9NDolaG014712 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 06:50:48 -0700 Received: from sandeen.net (sandeen.net [209.173.210.139]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id DAC664C85E4 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 06:50:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.0.4] (liberator.sandeen.net [10.0.0.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by sandeen.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E74D818CF9858 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:50:00 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <453CC888.2070806@sandeen.net> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:50:00 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: mount problem with xfs References: <20061023072613.33372.qmail@web8512.mail.in.yahoo.com> <20061023094634.GA8449@jdc> In-Reply-To: <20061023094634.GA8449@jdc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: xfs@oss.sgi.com 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