Try xfs_info /mount/point and send the results, this is probably a V1
directory filesystem, and V1 is not well supported in Linux.
I don't know offhand what the problem might be, but let's see what this
fs looks like.
-Eric
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 16:06, Josh Fishman wrote:
> Hi List!
>
> I couldn't find this in the archive; sorry if it's already been discussed
> to death. I'm trying to read a couple of XFS partitions that I recovered
> from a dead SGI, dd'd to a Linux disk, and am now trying to mount using
> loop-back.
>
> One partition-image mounts fine, it seems, but has a subdirectory that I
> can't list. "ls" slowly grows larger in memory until it's eaten all 1024
> MB of RAM on the machine, then it dies with an "out of memory" error.
>
> The other partition-image won't mount, but I haven't tried the "nouuid"
> trick yet, so I won't bother y'all with it just yet.
>
> Back to the Unlistable Image: I'm not getting any bad kernel or syslog
> messages, dmesg isn't informative, and I've compiled in the "debug" flags
> for XFS. I'm using linux-2.4.21 with:
>
> snapshot-xfs-2.4.21-2003-07-07_02:01_UTC with ACLs, realtime, debug enabled
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks, ---Josh
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