Re: mount -o loop problem

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>]

On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 15:10, Florin Andrei wrote:

> ...and this error in syslog:
> 
> Jan 15 13:00:34 stantz kernel: XFS: dirty log written in incompatible
> format - can't recoverXFS: log mount/recovery failedXFS: log mount
> failedXFS mounting filesystem
> loop(7,0)
> Jan 15 13:00:34 stantz kernel: XFS: nil uuid in log - IRIX style
> logStarting XFS recovery on filesystem: loop(7,0) (dev: 7/0)


> So, what's wrong?

Just what it says... "dirty log written in incompatible format" - mount
& unmount it on Irix, then re-dd it.  The endian-ness of the log is
machine native so you can't replay an Irix log on Linux.

If you absolutely can't mount/unmount on Irix, then xfs_repair -L will
obliterate the log, but there are losses associated with that.

-Eric


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