Mounting an xfs drive
Adam K Kirchhoff
adamk at voicenet.com
Tue Jan 9 09:51:41 PST 2007
Hello all,
I have an xfs drive from an old Origin 2000 that I'm trying to pull
some data from. I've managed to hook it up to my workstation which dual
boots FreeBSD -CURRENT and Linux. Both operating systems see the drive,
and Linux even sees three partitions (according to fdisk): sda8, sda9,
sda11. Unfortunately Linux refuses to mount the actual XFS partition.
>From what I can tell, it has to do with the fact that the filesystem is
using version 1 directory format, which is unsupported on the linux
version of XFS.
So I was hoping to see if the same is try for the FreeBSD version of
XFS. Again, FreeBSD sees the drive as /dev/da0, but no partitions or
slices show up. Much as I expected, trying to mount /dev/da0 directly
fails with "Operating not permitted". Before I continue fighting with
this, I've taken a look in the xfs source code on my system, and it
appears that version 1 directory format is unsupported on FreeBSD as
well. Can anyone confirm this? If it is supported, any suggestions on
how to get the drive mounted? Thanks :-)
Adam
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