When I xfsdump my /home partition, I see the above diagnostic where it lists "bind mount?" might be involved, but as far as I can see, that's not the case. grepping for '/home\s' on output of mount: /bin/mount|grep -P '/home\s' shows only 1 entry -- nothing mounted on top of it: /dev/mapper/Space-Home2 on /home type xfs (...) I have bind-mounts of things like /home/opt on /opt, but that shouldn't affect the root node, as far as I know. So what would cause the root node to differ from the mountdir ino? I try mounting the same filesystem someplace new: # df . Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/Space/Home2 2.0T 1.5T 569G 73% /home mkdir /home2 Ishtar:home# mount /dev/Space/Home2 /home2 Ishtar:home# ll -di /home /home2 256 drwxr-xr-x 40 4096 Nov 1 10:23 /home/ 256 drwxr-xr-x 40 4096 Nov 1 10:23 /home2/ Shows 256 as the root inode. So why is xfsdump claiming 192 is root inode? I used xfs_db and 192 is allocated to a normal file, while 256 displays nothing for the filename. How should I further debug this?