Re: Using xfsdump On Linux With IRIX Version 1 FS?

Sean Elble
2009-07-24T03:01:29Z

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On 7/23/09 10:23 PM, "Eric Sandeen" <sandeen@sandeen.net> wrote:

> Sean Elble wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> While I am aware that the current kernel implementation of XFS doesn't
>> support mounting an IRIX filesystem with version 1 directories, I'm not so
>> sure whether xfsdump/xfsrestore will support the dumping of an IRIX
>> filesystem with version 1 directories. To be more specific, I am dealing
>> with an old disk from an Indigo2, running IRIX 6.5.6m with version 1
>> (0x1094) directories. I was hoping it had version 2 directories, but after
>> finding an old SCSI card I could put in a Linux box with XFS support, I
>> found just the opposite, obviously. I had the old SCSI card back in its
>> donor system (which was up-and-running) when it occurred to me that
>> xfsdump/xfsrestore *might* be a possibility, and I can't take it (the donor
>> system) down again unless I know I can make this work.
>>
>> If anyone can give me an answer to this question, I would certainly
>> appreciate it. I didn't see anything in the man pages, and my Google
>> searches have proven fruitless thus far, but I've been known to be blind on
>> occasion. :-) Thanks, in advance.
>>
>
> linux used to work with v1 dirs, though there were some problems. It
> never got fixed, was not critical for 99.9% of users, and got taken out.
> But it might work well enough to do what you need. Go through the
> changelogs or google, and try an older Linux kernel, perhaps ....
>
> -Eric
>

Thanks for the reply, Eric, I appreciate it. I'll take a look and see what
I can find, being sure to post back the latest version of the kernel with
version 1 support. Think it was removed during the 2.5.x period, or could
it possibly have made it to the 2.6 era?

-Sean

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