Re: [PATCH] fix dir2 shortform structures on ARM old ABI

[Luca Olivetti <luca@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

En/na Eric Sandeen ha escrit:

[posting also to the list since I think it may be interesting for 
everybody, with sensitive information removed]
> Luca Olivetti wrote:
> > En/na Eric Sandeen ha escrit:
> >
> > > do you still have that small fs image?
> > Here's the link
> > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Please tell me when you have downloaded it, as I'm not sure the image is 
> > completely safe, so I don't like having it online.
> > Bye
> So, made an xfs_metadump image of that (just smaller, easier to move
> around):
>
> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> (don't worry, it's not linked from anywhere, I can take it down when you
> grab it) and then:
>
> bunzip2 sda2-meta.img.bz2
> xfs_mdrestore sda2-meta.img sda2.img
> mkdir mnt
> mount -o loop sda2.img  mnt/
> ls mnt
> ls mnt/sbin
>
> and this all worked fine for me on 2.6.25, eabi.
good to know!

> Linux fedora-arm 2.6.25-rc2 #2 Sat Feb 23 13:58:22 CST 2008 armv5tejl
> armv5tejl armv5tejl GNU/Linux
>
> Can you try the same steps on your box?
I'll report your result on the nas-central.org forum and I'll check 
what's the status of 2.6.25-rc2 on the linkstation (though I see that 
the orion.git repository is only updated to rc1).
If I find that it's possible to boot this kernel with no (or little ;-) 
risk I'll try it.
Bye
--
Luca