more xfs on ppc

[Thomas Graichen <news-innominate.list.sgi.xfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ok - just did the following on the linux/ppc machine:

- dumped the diskimage from

    http://innominate.org/~graichen/projects/xfs/xfs.dd.gz

  which is a gzip'ed 32mb fresh xfs filesystem on an before zeroed
  blockdevice with one file on it: XFS containing "i am here"

- did the following (all behind the % is comment):

  [root@aqua linux]# modprobe xfs
  [root@aqua linux]# mount -t xfs /dev/hda8 /mnt/floppy 
  [root@aqua linux]# cd /mnt/floppy 
  [root@aqua floppy]# ls
  XFS                                    % looks fine so far
  [root@aqua floppy]# cat XFS
  i am here                              % dito
  [root@aqua floppy]# cp XFS test
  [root@aqua floppy]# ls
  XFS                                    % does not show the new file
  [root@aqua floppy]# cat test
  i am here                              % but it is somehow there
  [root@aqua floppy]# cd 
  [root@aqua /root]# umount /mnt/floppy 
  [root@aqua /root]#

- dumped that filesystem back into a file - which you may now
  get from

    http://innominate.org/~graichen/projects/xfs/xfs-ppc-bug.dd.gz

maybe someone might have a short look at it - it should be simple
enough so that someone who knows the xfs on disk structures might
get an idea of what exactly goes wrong here (so that i know in
which direction to look further) ... maybe a good warmup for
a day :-)

a lot of thanks in advance

t

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