Re: xfs fails to recover a raid0 root filesystem

[Juri Haberland <juri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pietro Abate wrote:
> Hi all,
> This is already the second time it happens to me... :-((
> Do you have any clue why this can happen ? Are you aware of any way of 
> avoiding this problem or have an automatic recovery procedure ? Is it a 
> known bug ?
> I'm deliveing this machine to a client and it's pretty inconveniant
> for me to go back every time he has a power failoure...

Well, I don't know how many people out there use Linux on Sparc in real
life.

> <off topic>
> Does exist a rescure disk for sparc with xfs and raid compiled in (or is
> there any documentation how to build one without a sparc machine ...
> cross compiling anyone ? ) ?
> </off topic>

You could put the disks (or at least one) in an ia32 machine and boot
with Knoppix and repair them there.

Cheers,
Juri