Re: XFS: SB validate failed

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> As Eric said.
> We chose the ondisk format to have the byte ordering of IRIX so
> it should not be a problem. However, parts of the log code in Linux
> does not do the necessary endian conversion (due to lack of info at
> the relevant points - it only knows as blobs of data) and so you
> need the log to be clean. i.e. byte ordering problem just for the log.
>

Thanks for this info, it's good to have 1 less problem to worry about :)

> OOI, as Eric asked, how were you able to mount it all of a sudden?
>

I am not sure, as I said, to narrow down the problem I am experiencing
with other disks, I decided to format an empty, healthy disk under Irix and
try to mount it under Linux. The first try was not successful but the
second was.

Right now I am making an image of the good/healthy disk using dd to
see if I can mount that
image under Linux. (It's not fun to copy 2GB disks through a
USB1.1-SCSI adapter :)
My ultimate goal is to make image of the disks that do have
partition table but refuse to mount under either OS (magic number and
SB validattion failure).
I am hoping I can edit the disk image in order to get the data back.

Again I'd like to thank Eric, you and Stephen, you guys have been very helpful.