Re: problems with xfs as root fs

[Michael Wahlbrink <x_miw@propack-data.com>]

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Ok, two things here then.  Apparently your filesystem thinks it was not
> shut down cleanly; it's doing recovery.  Then recovery fails, and it
> can't mount the root FS so you get the panic.  To quote Steve, "Bad
> clientid means there was something in the log which was not
> recognized."  I don't know for sure what might have caused this, it
> seems like write caching could be the culprit.
> 
> What version is the kernel?  I wonder where the XFS bits came from.

The Kernel is a 2.4.18 from kernel.org with the xfs-1.1-2.4.18-all.patch 
patch from oss.sgi.com :-|
nothing special or have I missed something? ;-)

> 
> I would make sure write caching is off on the IDE drives and see if that
> solves the problem (will change your performance quite a bit too, I'm
> afraid.)
It's slow enough with cache - how will it be without? ;-)
> 


I'll go home and try this .....

> -Eric 
> 
thanks for the fast answers!
  I will report the results soon ;-)

regards
micha