On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 02:22:05PM -0500, Steve Lord wrote:
> Unmount the filesystem and run xfs_repair -n on the device, then send me
> the output. You should really be seeing a .. link for that ls output. I
> have been chasing something which might be related for a few days
> now.
I just tried booting into single user mode, and running it, but it refuses
to run even when the filesystem is mounted ro. I cannot unmount it because
its my root (/) partition. Is there an option to force it to run? I dont
see why it refuses to especially with the -n option..
> > Is this normal? Does the XFS kernel not use buffers, or, is the output just
> > wrong?
>
> This buffer count does not reflect buffers used for file data, just the
> block device cache - which xfs does not use. If you run a mkfs or
> xfs_repair type operation on the block device you will see the numbers
> go up. You are seeing normal values here, my box currently looks like
> this:
I actually have no idea what the difference between cache and buffers is. I
was looking for some documentation with regards to that a while back but
found none. Is it explained someplace? :)
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