failed to read root inode

[Christian Affolter]

Hi

>> So if repair isn't making a mountable fs, first suggestion would
>> be to re-try with the latest version of repair.
> 
> OK, I will try that. Unfortunately the latest upstream version isn't
> included within the distribution package repository, so I will have to
> compile it first.

OK, I was able to mount the volume by first repairing it with the latest
xfs_repair version and mount -o ro,norecovery [...]

Thank you everybody for your helpfulness and your suggestions regarding
this problem.


Regards
Christian