Re: Unable to mount XFS (3Ware).

[Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>]

On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 08:13, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 07:59, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > On 11 Mar 2002, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> > 
> > > Howdy, all.  I created a 1 TB 3Ware RAID today, and everything works
> > > like a charm... until I try to mount it:
> [...]
> > What does your syslog say?  That will have the real error information.
> 
> Wow -- hadn't known that!  Here's what it shows:
> Mar 11 09:03:05 nebula kernel: XFS: SB sanity check 2 failed
> Mar 11 09:03:05 nebula kernel: XFS: SB validate failed
> 

How recent are your XFS commands? It looks like you device size does not
play well with this version of mkfs, there was a version which had
problems like this, and it is possible the current one still does.

Basically mkfs sliced the device up into chunks and hit a boundary
condition on the size. Simon's suggestion would work, but you should
be able to up the size to say 915m out of the 916 you have.

Steve

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