>
> Hi.
>
> I am new to XFS and this list. Great initiative.
>
>
> I tried the following:
>
> mkfs.xfs /dev/hdb4 -r size=1g,extsize=65536,rtdev=/dev/hdb3 -f
>
> i.e. setting up an XFS filesystem on /dev/hdb4 with a real-time section on
> /dev/hdb3. Mkfs says it's happy about it.
>
> But when I try to mount, I get the following response (whereas mounting an
> XFS without a real-time section will go just fine):
>
> iep:/usr/include/linux# mount /dev/hdb4
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb4,
> or too many mounted file systems
Try
mount -t xfs -o rtdev=/dev/hdb3 /dev/hdb4 /xfs
This should let you mount, I suspect you will find problems with actual file
I/O into realtime files, but we can fix those as we find them. The realtime
subvolume has not had any attention payed to it in quite a while.
Steve
>
>
> Isn't that a pity! Is this an unsupported feature? The header
> files seem to do all the necessary ioctl() calls to open a file
> as part of the real-time section...
>
>
> How much work would it be to implement the feature, if it is
> indeed missing? We'd be prepared to put some effort into this.
>
>
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>
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