Re: Probems with xfs_repair on large filesystem and 32bit OS.

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 08:07:18AM -0400, Lance Reed wrote:
> SO, I take it from what you say that that I can running any newer version of 
> xfs progs and a 64bit host (fiber attached, easy to do this), and run 
> xfs_repair on the 32bit XFS volumes without fear of data corruption?
> Is this because XFS is not version specific, and xfs_repair will honor the 
> 32bit file data structures?

Yes, this is fine.  All the actual filesystem structures are endian and
32/64bit clean.  The log needs to be in the same endianess and had 32bit
vs 64bit problems on x86 for a while, but it needs to be recovered
before you run xfs_repair anyway.