From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay2.corp.sgi.com [137.38.102.29]) by oss.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFCD07F37 for ; Wed, 6 May 2015 22:05:54 -0500 (CDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by relay2.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6147304059 for ; Wed, 6 May 2015 20:05:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sandeen.net (sandeen.net [63.231.237.45]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id UwT9DuVooACOaSak for ; Wed, 06 May 2015 20:05:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <554AD68D.7040901@sandeen.net> Date: Wed, 06 May 2015 22:05:49 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: SGI Version 1 XFS on Linux References: <2994A55DE0FBBE41B8FE47F9885D74221BC0569C@ARLEXCHMBX02.lst.link.l-3com.com> <20150506171222.GA22744@sgi.com> <2994A55DE0FBBE41B8FE47F9885D74221BC056F3@ARLEXCHMBX02.lst.link.l-3com.com> <20150506215816.GE4327@dastard> In-Reply-To: <20150506215816.GE4327@dastard> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Dave Chinner , "Scott, Edmund J @ SSG - Link" Cc: Ben Myers , "xfs@oss.sgi.com" On 5/6/15 4:58 PM, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 07:47:51PM +0000, Scott, Edmund J @ SSG - > Link wrote: >> Hi, >> >> We are in a thunderstorm right now so we had to shut down, be a >> while until we get things back up. We're in Utah with a rolling >> t-storm coming through. >> >> We did find documentation that XFS version 1 was pulled out of the >> linux kernel around or after kernel 2.4. and the messages kind of >> support that. I'm looking into digging up an old Red Hat OS to see >> if it is old enough to have the version 1 XFS in it. > > You'd be talking about the directory version, then, not the version > of the filesystem? Irix 6.2 introduced Version 4 filesystems, but > version 2 directories didn't come along until a couple of years > later. See Slides 6-7 here: > > http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/dchinner-xfs-there-and-back.pdf > > As it is, the dirv1 removal commit says "Never functioned on Linux, > just pure bloat". > > http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=archive/xfs-import.git;a=commitdiff;h=b84149405b9c2ecbc445d2684053e4acc03342ee > > So I suspect that the only way you are going to be able to read > those filesystems is with an Irix machine.... IIRC it worked, FSVO "worked" - I forget the issues, but you will at least be able to mount it and get some data, I think. -Eric _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs