Re: Cannot mount IRIX cdroms using XFS on Linux

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 08:30:16AM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 at 5:23am, Jason Spence wrote
> 
> > So I get XFS working on my Linux machine[1], and try to mount the IRIX
> > dist cdroms.  Hmm, they don't mount.  The kernel doesn't even
> > recognize /dev/hdd1 as a device (fdisk can parse the partition table,
> > though).  The kernel has SGI partition table support, right?  Yeah, I
> > can mount the IRIX drive from the Indy.  So lessee here, the sgi
> 
> IIRC, IRIX distro CDs are EFS, not XFS...

*nod*

But EFs is supported (read-only) by Linux 2.2.1<something>+.
So try mount -t efs.

        Christoph

-- 
Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.