Re: running xfs_repair on large partitions

[Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@xxxxxxx>]

Le Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:33:38 +0200 vous écriviez:

> 1) it would be nice to have a way to know xfs_repair's version
> (-V ?), when using it from a rescue disk I'm never sure if I should
> get a newer one.

Did you try "xfs_repair -V" as you suggest? On my system, it replies
with the version...

> 2) on a 32bit system, using xfsprogs version 2.9.0 , it seems
> xfs_repair will fail if its process exceeds 4G. Is that right? Is
> there a way to circumvent that limitation?

No, this is precisely what 32 bits mean. A 32 bits process can't
address more than 2^32 bits, which is 4GB. However I'm
surprised you have this problem; I've xfs_repaired up to 16TB
filesystem (maximum manageable with a 32 bits kernel ) without such
problem.
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