Power Failure, Maybe?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:17:55PM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
> Oh dear :-(.  Most of the important data was indeed on XFS :-(.

You can mount XFS on amd64 from ia32 IFF it was cleanly unmounted on an
IA32 first.  The journal data is not compatible, so a non clean unmount
can not be mounted on another architecture.  Very dumb "bug/feature" of
XFS.

> The disk drive headed in to work where there are plenty o IA-32 boxes,
> and I had no difficulty building suitable tarballs of the XFS
> filesystems and dropping them onto an ext2 FS mountable on knuth the
> 64 bit box.
> 
> I'm getting some odd segfaults here and there on some of the 64 bit
> bins, but mail is now working, at least :-).

Lennart Sorensen
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