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List:       amd-dev
Subject:    Re: XFS support on IRIX?
From:       Erez Zadok <ezk () shekel ! mcl ! cs ! columbia ! edu>
Date:       1998-01-30 1:01:19
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In message <9710271820.ZM1127@prandtl.ccrl-nece.technopark.gmd.de>, "Markus Baum" writes:
> 
> Dear developers of AMD,
> 
> We are running AMD upl102 on our LAN (mainly SGI's) for two years
> now. Recently we also tested am-utils9.12a. Now, usually we were using the
> efs file system for the SGI's and had no problems with mounting the
> devices via amd
> 
> e.g.:
> 
> sgi3           host!=${key};type:=nfs;rhost:=sgi3;rfs:=/usr/people/sgi3 \
>                host==sgi3;type:=ufs;dev:=/dev/dsk/dks0d3s7
> 
> However, recently we use disks with xfs file system. AMD still works fine for
> nfs mounting, but the mouting of a device does no longer work.
> 
> The following messages are logged when trying this type of mounting
> 
> Oct 27 17:55:52 3D:prandtl amd[183]: /a/prandtl/usr/people/sgi11: mount:
> Invalid argument
> Oct 27 17:55:52 3D:prandtl amd[183]: mount_ufs: Invalid argument
> 
> 
> Is there a way to overcome this difficulty in mounting the xfs disks?

Not with type:=ufs.  Am-utils performs a linear search for any known disk
based file systems, and then sets 'ufs' to the first one it finds.  So
depending on the order of that search, it may find efs or xfs on Irix.

The simplest way to solve this was to have am-utils search separately for
efs, and xfs.  With some creative cut-n-paste of ufs code, you should be
able now to set separate entries with type:=xfs or type:=efs.

Check the latest snapshot.

> Best regards
> 
> Markus Baum

Erez.

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