Toralf Lund wrote:
From the XFS FAQ,
Will I be able to use my old IRIX XFS disks on linux?
[ ... ] Linux can only read v2 directories on the moment. Using v1
will probably fail in spectacular ways.
I have a large IRIX filesystem that I would like to mount on Linux,
but I think it has version 1 directories. Is there any way at all I
can get this to work?
First of all, your Irix filesystem is going to have to meet a few other
requirements :
o It cannot be xlv or xvm based - there is no linux support for these
o the filesystem blocksize needs to be the same as the page size on
your linux block,
the irix default is 4K, so this is usually not a problem
o it should not have the unwritten extent support turned on.
You can check the latter 2 with xfs_growfs -n /mnt on irix
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.
Steve
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