Hi,
I have successfully installed XFS filesystem on a software RAID0
/dev/md0 partition made of two sub-2TB pieces of a hardware RAID array.
The total size is 3.6TB.
The system is a Fedora Core 2, dual Xean 3.06GHz, Tyan Tiger i7501
mobo, 2.6.7-1.494.2.2smp kernel, xfsprogs-2.6.13-1.
I can mount/umount, write/read to the filesystem, no problem.
I am getting into a problem when trying to check the filesystem. It
seems a bit confusing:
>fsck /dev/md0
fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
>fsck.xfs /dev/md0
(no output at all)
>xfs_check /dev/md0
xfs_check: out of memory
The "out of memory" message is mentioned in the xfs_check man-page, as a
possible problem with a filesystem that is "very large (has many files)".
Well, while in terms of total capacity my FS is indeed "very large", it
is not (yet) in terms of "has many files"). At the moment there are just
three directories made there and a single file (same message with no files).
"xfs_repair" seems to work fine (although I only ran it on a cleanly
unmounted FS).
Any feedback would be appreciated. I am a bit reluctant to put my
valuable data on a filesystem which can't be checked.
regards, Michal.
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Michal Szymanski (msz at astrouw dot edu dot pl)
Warsaw University Observatory, Warszawa, POLAND
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