Ethan is on the right track, it sounds like your root device is a funky
1024-byte sector beast. In general, XFS cannot do this, although
as Ethan said, Nathan does have new code in CVS that I think is well on the way
to working correctly. I'm not sure I'd call it a supported feature
quite yet though.
The -b option to mkfs changes the filesystem block size, btw, so that does
not help with the device sector size.
Out of curiosity, what is your root device?
-Eric
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Jason H. Smith wrote:
> Hi again. Thanks for the speedy feedback!
>
> On Tuesday 24 June 2003 05:15 pm, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > well do you really need to use initrd?
>
> Unfortunately, initrd is an integral part of the system for other reasons.
> Personally, I'm looking forward to the new initramfs stuff in 2.5.
>
> > hmm, sounds like a task for the new xfsprogs 2.5.0 mkfs.xfs which has
> > a -s switch to set the sector size to something other then 512 (i
> > think its -s anyway), this would probably also require a current cvs
> > kernel.
>
> Thanks for the information.
>
> --
> Jason Smith
> Open Enterprise Systems
> Bangkok, Thailand
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