Eric, We at Debian received a bug report about XFS on ARM (see below). I noticed your posting at http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2007-03/msg00053.html in which you said that this was a known issue. I cannot find the workaround you mentioned in your message. Do you know where I can find it?
I think you also mentioned not having access to any ARM hardware. If I can give you an account on an ARM machine, do you think you could invetigate this issue in more detail? It would be great to have a small testcase that could be sent to the GCC folks. Thanks. * Michael Prokop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-03-14 21:30]: > Package: linux-image-2.6.18-4-ixp4xx > Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-11 > Severity: important > > > I'm using the NSLU2 device with Debian > (http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/): > > # uname -a > Linux NSLU 2.6.18-4-ixp4xx #1 Thu Feb 22 14:00:55 UTC 2007 armv5tel GNU/Linux > > The problem: using a partition which has been generated on a x86 > system using the filesystem XFS does not work on arm/NSLU2. Mounting > the partition does not indicate any problems in the syslog, but > access to the partition/files is definitely not possible: > > # ls -la /mnt/sdb2 > total 4 > drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 76 Oct 13 00:09 / > drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 76 Oct 13 00:09 / > drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 76 Oct 13 00:09 / > drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 76 Oct 13 00:09 / > drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 76 Oct 13 00:09 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 7 19:46 ../ > # > > Though the disk usage is displayed correct: > > # df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda1 773M 606M 128M 83% / > tmpfs 15M 0 15M 0% /lib/init/rw > udev 10M 44K 10M 1% /dev > tmpfs 15M 0 15M 0% /dev/shm > /dev/sdb2 271G 95G 176G 35% /mnt/sdb2 > > The XFS partition can be used without any problems on the x86 > system, there's no data loss. XFS itself is ok on arm/NSLU2 if the > partition has been generated on the arm platform using mkfs.xfs. > > I played around with xfs_repair, xfs_db, xfs_check,... tons of error > messages are displayed though the partition itself is ok - it's just > that there seem to be serious problems on the arm platform. > > The problem is reproducable, just run something like > > # mkfs.xfs -d file,name=/file,size=20m > > on a x86 system and try to mount the file on arm/NSLU2 then. > > If you need any further information, debugging output,... please let > me know. > > regards, > -mika- > > -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]