Re: XFS: SB validate failed

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Spam Magnet wrote:
>> try xfs_repair -n then maybe.  Or update xfsprogs.  check shouldn't
>> segfault, regardless of the fs state.
>>
> 
> I updated xfsprogs to the latest version (cvs checkout) and it solved
> the segfault.
> 
>> nah that's fine, images or disks, whichever.
>>
> 
> So I guess it doesn't matter if I do the image either using dd or xfsdump.
> I'd prefer dd since I get a lot of issues trying to compile xfsprogs under 
> Irix.
> 
> Assuming that I get an image using dd, would a simple mount command suffice
> to use the xfs utils ? :
> $ mount -t xfs -o loop disk.img /mnt

that's fine, assuming your dd was of the partition that actually held
the xfs fs.

-Eric