Hi -
Somebody asked for the installer guy? :)
"Venables, Michael" wrote:
>
> I tried installing Red Hat 7.1+XFS on a bare Compaq server, and when it was
> all over, I got nothing that functioned.
>
> The machine:
> ProLiant 6400 (4x PII Xeon 450 w. 2MB cache)
> 4GB RAM
> SmartArray 3200 array controller (raid 5)
> Voodoo 5
>
> The install process went smoothly, but there were numerous "no such file or
> directory" errors on reboot. When it eventually hit a login prompt, none of
> the filesystems which had been marked as XFS seemed to be present (/boot was
> left as ext2).
The "no such file" stuff sounds like it _might_ be another devfs thing,
but I'd suspect the raid controller, see below.
How did you configure your system - what mount points were XFS?
> I've heard that there might be a block size issue with XFS supporting only
> 4k blocks and the Compaq Array controller supporting only 1k blocks. But I
> don't know if that's the issue here.
Also, Martin checked in some raid changes for BLKBSZSET and BLKBSZGET
ioctls - I think that mount will fail without this change?
Martin says:
> The ... driver didn't support the ioctl for setting the software
> blocksize, so our last superblock ends up at a wrong offset causing
> mount to fail
Maybe Martin can comment if he's around...
-Eric
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Eric Sandeen XFS for Linux http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
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