On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 09:48:12 +0100 "Bojan Zdrnja" <Bojan.Zdrnjaat_private> wrote: > So, I'd advise Rod to try to mount that HDD under some Linux computer - > he should be able to see normal filesystem if it's on disk. It's also > possible that disk was used in RAID on original computer. Here is more information on doing this, there are a couple major catches and potential problems: ---cut--- From: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html Will I be able to use my old IRIX XFS disks on linux? Yes. The on-disk format of XFS is the same on IRIX and Linux. Obviously, you should back-up your data before trying to move it between systems. Filesystems must be "clean" when moved (ie unmounted correctly). If plan to use IRIX disks on linux keep the followng things in mind: the kernel needs to have SGI partition support enabled (to find in the File systems -> Partition Types submenu of a "make menuconfig"), there is no XLV support in linux, so you won't be able to read IRIX disks using the XLV volume manager, also not all blocksizes available on IRIX are available on Linux. (only the blocksize <= pagesize of the architecture: 4k for i386, ppc, ... 8k for alpha, sparc, ... is possible for now). Make sure that the directory format is version 2 on the Irix disks. Linux can only read v2 directories on the moment. Using v1 will probably fail in spectacular ways. Support for blocksize > pagesize needs to have the linux kernel reworked to support this. This might come somewhere in 2.5.x The only real caveat here is that at the moment XFS on Linux only supports filesystems where the disk block size is less than or equal to the page size. ---cut--- - Jason ----------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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