Re: [PATCH] fix dir2 shortform structures on ARM old ABI

[Luca Olivetti <luca@ventoso.org>]

En/na Eric Sandeen ha escrit:

[posting also to the list since I think it may be interesting for 
everybody, with sensitive information removed]

> Luca Olivetti wrote:
>> En/na Eric Sandeen ha escrit:
>>
>>> do you still have that small fs image?
>> Here's the link
>> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> Please tell me when you have downloaded it, as I'm not sure the image is 
>> completely safe, so I don't like having it online.
>>
>> Bye
> 
> So, made an xfs_metadump image of that (just smaller, easier to move
> around):
> 
> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> (don't worry, it's not linked from anywhere, I can take it down when you
> grab it) and then:
> 
> bunzip2 sda2-meta.img.bz2
> xfs_mdrestore sda2-meta.img sda2.img
> mkdir mnt
> mount -o loop sda2.img  mnt/
> ls mnt
> ls mnt/sbin
> 
> and this all worked fine for me on 2.6.25, eabi.

good to know!

> 
> Linux fedora-arm 2.6.25-rc2 #2 Sat Feb 23 13:58:22 CST 2008 armv5tejl
> armv5tejl armv5tejl GNU/Linux
> 
> Can you try the same steps on your box?

I'll report your result on the nas-central.org forum and I'll check 
what's the status of 2.6.25-rc2 on the linkstation (though I see that 
the orion.git repository is only updated to rc1).
If I find that it's possible to boot this kernel with no (or little ;-) 
risk I'll try it.

Bye
-- 
Luca