Re: Cannot mount IRIX cdroms using XFS on Linux

[Jason Spence <thalakan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 02:34:27PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig developed
a new theory of relativity and: 
> 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.

Ah, that works.  Thanks :)

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 - Jason

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