Re: DAC960 and XFS blocksize error

["Martin K. Petersen" <mkp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Rossman <paulr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Paul> Thanks for the patch. I saw the boot stuff from a few days
Paul> ago... and I also had those problems, but I didn't need to boot
Paul> with an xfs disk so just used the rh71 disks to install... I
Paul> didn't get the connection :)

Ah, ok.


Paul> Should I go ahead and patch the kernel, reboot, then reformat
Paul> the disk?  Could there be a side effect from having the disk
Paul> formatted from the old kernel and using the patched one?

Well.  If you can mount the filesystem after a reboot, you've been
lucky and the superblock ended up in the right spot.

Otherwise you'll have to resort to mkfs.xfs.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen, Principal Linux Consultant, Linuxcare, Inc.
mkp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, http://www.linuxcare.com/
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