On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 13:10, Toralf Lund wrote:
> On 01/02 2002 13:33 Stephen Lord wrote:
> I know, but as far as I can tell, all those requirements are met. I wasn't
> able to mount the file system on a Red Hat 7.2 box with
> kernel-2.4.9-13SGI_XFS_1.0.2, though. I didn't have the opportunity to
> experiment a lot, though, as someone needed the data pretty fast (the file
> system in question had to be moved from an Origin server due to SCSI
> problems. Ideally, I wanted to put it on a Linux hosts, but it ended up on
> an O2 workstation, at least temporarily.) Are the precompiled kernels
> supposed to support everything needed?
Can you report the error? The other requirement is you need a clean log,
the linux and irix log formats are not the same - they are host byte
ordered. So you cannot mount a dirty filesystem from one os on the other.
xfs_repair is the only way to force that, it zeros the log.
> > The directory code should work for the most part, but large directories
> > may suffer
> > problems with readdir on linux - the V1 format passes up 64 bit hash
> > values as
> > directory offsets, and this confuses glibc from time to time. Entries
> > can go
> > missing or you can occassionally get into a loop.
> Is there any way to convert the existing directories, or at least mix
> version 1 and 2?
Errm, dump/restore I am afraid, it is a major on disk change not something
we can do to a live filesystem.
Steve
>
> - Toralf
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