Rescue Disk and XFS Filesystems 4529

Dances With Crows

Hi,

True enough. This'd be for home use.

This is what I have been doing with my SPARC5 running the 2.4 kernel with SILO (SPARC Improved LOader).

I just tried the GRUB boot loader for the first time. I think I'll look further into it.

Under x86, yes. BTW, you don't have to do this under SPARC-SILO.

Not locally. I did the write at another location.

I'll take your word for it. I'm glad I managed to avoid the problem.

That's possible.

It would have been nice to have it but there's always more than one way to do it.

NFS can be tricky.

You don't fsck XFS filesystems. This is what xfsrepair is for.

A journaling filesystems maintains filesystem consistency by writing filesystem metadata out to a metadata log. In the event of a crash, etc, the log is consulted, the metadata is read and then re-integrated back into the filesystem, thus restoring consistency. This is why you don't run fsck on such filesystems. However, they can, of course, be corrupted and I have seen wrecked XFS filesystems.

I understand your concerns. Just for the record though, I've been running XFS filesystems (mostly root volumes) under IRIX on my SGI's at home for nearly 9 years. I've been hit with blackouts, etc and have only once had to repair a file- system after checking it's consistency. Basically though, I think that this just boils down to a YMMV thing.

One thought. It might be the case that native IRIX XFS is just more stable than it's Linux port bretheren.

That's a good record.

Usenet can be addicting.

Yours,

Josh.