Re: can't mount anymore..

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>]

At 23:40 17-2-2002 +0000, Daniel Nordin wrote:
>I installed xfs on a Pentium Pro with a Promise TX-133 IDE
>controller, Slackware 8.0 and kernel 2.4.17-xfs. Then I
>made a xfs partition on a 80Gb IDE HD. It worked just fine.
>
>Now I have an Alpha W/S with Redhat 7.1, the same IDE
>controller and the same kernel version.
>But now when I try to mount the xfs-partition it says:
>
>XFS: Trying to mount file system with 4096 bytes
>XFS: Only page-sized (8192 bytes) blocksize currently works
>XFS: SB validate failed
>
>so... what is my problem and how do I solve it ???

You can't exchange the disks between machines that have different page sizes.

Alpha has a 8K pagesize while Intel has 4K.
There is work in progress to mount disks with a blocksize smaller then 
pagesize.

This would also mean that if a disk has been formatted on a alpha with 8K 
pagesize and intel box can not mount it. However mounting a disk with a 
blocksize larger then pagesize is currently not possible.

This is explained in the FAQ as well.

Cheers

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Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.