Mornin'!
I currently have XFS installed on four machines. Last night, on the
newest, I had completed the XFS/RH 7.2 install (after much gnashing of
teeth, see below), and was using rsync to retrieve the copy of /home I
had saved before upgrading (rsync -avcP). I tried several times, but
XFS continued to shutdown on the first write attempt each time.
/var/log/messages reported:
xfs_inotobp: xfs_imap() returned an error 22 on ide0 (3,65).
This is indeed the location of /home, on /dev/hdb1, and is a WD 400BB
(40 GB Caviar). I looked briefly at the code, and xfs_imap() only has
one point that could return an error, on an error return from
xfs_dilocate(). 22 is EINVAL, which seems to say that xfs_dilocate
doesn't like one or more of it's input args. So, that's the low-level
insight. What's it mean at the high level?
Note: previously, I was having great difficulty with this installation,
because I have one of the motherboards (DFI AK75-EC) which can't handle
the Athlon specific mmx_clear_page() and mmx_copy_page(). It was
oopsing all over the place. I recompiled the kernel for i686 (see the
RH 7.2 release notes), and it seemed fine. In 20/20 retrospect, I see
that perhaps I should have blown away /home with mkfs.xfs, and started
rsync over, as all bets are off. Sorry, it was late, and I wasn't
thinking as clearly as I am now <grin>.
Thoughts? Confirmations? Denials? Opinions?
Thanks!
--
kernel, n.: A part of an operating system that preserves the
medieval traditions of sorcery and black art.
Danny
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