Re: XFS: SB validate failed

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>]

Spam Magnet wrote:
>> Byte ordering is only an issue for the log replay; you'd get a message
>> about that if it were the issue.
>>
>> Does file -s /dev/sdb? say that any of those things even look like an
>> xfs filesystem?
>>
>> If so point xfs_db at it like:
>>
>> xfs_db -r -c "sb 0" -c "p" /dev/sdb<whatever>
>>
> it's indeed an xfs filesystem:
> $ sudo file -s /dev/sdb8
> /dev/sdb8: SGI XFS filesystem data (blksz 4096, inosz 256, v2 dirs)
> 

...

> 
> I can mount and see the content of this disk: using:
> mount -t xfs /dev/sdb8 /mnt

oh, I thought you couldn't mount it :)

> But xfs_check still crashes on me :(
> /usr/sbin/xfs_check: line 28: 26782 Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> xfs_db$DBOPTS -i -p xfs_check -c "check$OPTS" $1

try xfs_repair -n then maybe.  Or update xfsprogs.  check shouldn't
segfault, regardless of the fs state.

> Will it be ok if I made a 1:1 image of my disks under Irix (using dd):
> 
> $ dd if=/dev/dsk/dks1d3vol of=disk.img bs=512 conv=ignerror,sync
> 
> And tried to use xfs module in Linux to mount them ? or this programs
> are only meant to work with actual device rather than an image file ?

nah that's fine, images or disks, whichever.

-Eric

> thanks for your patience
>