Re: Strange XFS issue on tiny-NAS ARM NFS server

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Talpey, Thomas wrote:
> This might be pilot error, but a *very* strange thing happens with
> an XFS filesystem on an NFS server I'm experimenting with. This is
> an NSLU2 ARM-based machine, running 2.6.20.1 and an XFS filesystem
> freshly built on a usb-attached 2.5" drive.
>
> Running Connectathon 04 basic tests against the server, things are
> fine with an EXT-formatted filesystem. However, reformatting the
> export as a default XFS filesystem (mkfs.xfs -f /dev/sda3), the
> following occurs:

arm compiler has bugs that miscompile xfs... I think if you google arm + 
xfs and maybe search the list archives, you'll find a possible workaround.

-Eric