From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:08:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from larry.melbourne.sgi.com (larry.melbourne.sgi.com [134.14.52.130]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with SMTP id m5227uTd018505 for ; Sun, 1 Jun 2008 19:08:00 -0700 Message-ID: <4843562A.9030503@sgi.com> Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:08:42 +1000 From: Timothy Shimmin MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: XFS: SB validate failed References: <3607657a0805291005k457791cej1c5f867da0f95965@mail.gmail.com> <483EE5BD.8020407@sandeen.net> <3607657a0805291255i59fd006fi9d6836cf528d19a6@mail.gmail.com> <483F0BC3.2050901@sandeen.net> <3607657a0805291400h3c50165lea6fbea919deed0f@mail.gmail.com> <483F1AED.3010808@sandeen.net> <3607657a0805291446t79808c63l664780c1cbc3d871@mail.gmail.com> <483F907A.3020108@sgi.com> <3607657a0805301019h4a49dc86ne8f1f019629a1c41@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3607657a0805301019h4a49dc86ne8f1f019629a1c41@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Spam Magnet Cc: Eric Sandeen , xfs@oss.sgi.com Spam Magnet wrote: >> As Eric said. >> We chose the ondisk format to have the byte ordering of IRIX so >> it should not be a problem. However, parts of the log code in Linux >> does not do the necessary endian conversion (due to lack of info at >> the relevant points - it only knows as blobs of data) and so you >> need the log to be clean. i.e. byte ordering problem just for the log. >> > > Thanks for this info, it's good to have 1 less problem to worry about :) > >> OOI, as Eric asked, how were you able to mount it all of a sudden? >> > > I am not sure, as I said, to narrow down the problem I am experiencing > with other disks, I decided to format an empty, healthy disk under Irix and > try to mount it under Linux. The first try was not successful but the > second was. > > Right now I am making an image of the good/healthy disk using dd to > see if I can mount that > image under Linux. (It's not fun to copy 2GB disks through a > USB1.1-SCSI adapter :) :-) If the fs is not too full then xfs_copy would be good I suppose as it won't copy freespace. --Tim