Re: xfsprogs-2.0.1-0.ia64.rpm - mkfs.xfs fails to create a filesystem

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Warren Stockton wrote:

> Everything was going pretty well until I tried to add some new drives.  The
> error messages are below:  I found that if remove the xfsprogs-2.0.1 and
> install the older xfsprogs-1.3.13 I can again make filesystems.

mkfs 2.0+ tries to use BLKGETSIZE64 and falls back to BLKGETSIZE if that
fails, I thought this was working...

Can you run mkfs.xfs through strace to see if it's encountering any
errors?

strace -omkfs.strace.output mkfs.xfs <options>

and the output goes to mkfs.strace.output

-Eric