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Re: XFS on one drive readable for both IRIX and LINUX?

To: Tom Duffy <tduffy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: XFS on one drive readable for both IRIX and LINUX?
From: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 14:20:32 -0400
Cc: Ryo Ono <ryo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
References: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0104051050570.10515-100000@dbear.engr.sgi.com>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Tom Duffy wrote:

> well, the first thing you will need to do is recompile your linux kernel
> with sgi partition support.
>
> then, fdisk the drive the and stick a new sgi partition on it.  that way
> sgi and linux can read the drive.  (this will renumber the partition to be
> something like 7th or 8th partittion on the disk -- this is the way linux
> handles sgi's way of doing partition tables).

good point.
Note the 0.10 rpm's do not have SGI labels turned on.
the 0.10.1 rpm's do.


>
>
> -tduffy
>
> On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Ryo Ono wrote:
>
> > Is that possible for IRIX machine to read a drive formatted XFS by LINUX
> > machines? Or the other way around?
> >
> > We have a necessity to transfer data from other machine(LINUX) to O2.
> > Right now we are using ftp transfer to do it, but it takes long time since
> > we are dealing with more than 10GByte data at once. (Takes more than
> > 40 minutes to transfer)
> >
> > It would be a good idea if we could store necessary data on XFS drive in
> > LINUX, take the drive off from the system then hook the drive to O2.
> > But when I tried to do this, I wasn't able to read the drive from O2.
> > (I tried the other way but it didn't work either).
> >
> > I would really appreciate if you could give me some idea to make it
> > work.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> >
> > Ryo Ono
> > ryo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >

--
Russell Cattelan
--
Digital Elves inc. -- Currently on loan to SGI
Linux XFS core developer.




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