Hi Joe, Thanks for the reply and the hint, but the norecovery option fails due to the superblock not being found. Neil's comment seems to indicate that there's a basic incompatibility in the way the NAS vendors implemented XFS. We may be hosed on this one (not my NAS/files - I'm just trying to help some others in the group). I will try the XFS group tho. The mdadm part came thru like a champ tho - thanks! Another reason to stay away from these kind of gadgets (I actually tried this device when it first came out and abandoned that approach as too futzy, not nearly flexible enough and not administratable enough). As well, with all the big P3/p4 towers being given away for free now, I can build one of these in an hour or so with one of the SilImage cards and get a much more useful box for essentially the cost of raw disk. Harry On Monday 23 February 2009, Joe Landman wrote: > Harry Mangalam wrote: > > Here's an unusual (long) tale of woe. > Hmmm... is it possible that the journal is external for the XFS > filesystem in question? Could you try > > mount -o norecovery,ro /dev/md1 /mountpoint > > Otherwise, could you dd the file system off there onto another > (large) partition, before you try xfs_repair -- Harry Mangalam - Research Computing, NACS, E2148, Engineering Gateway, UC Irvine 92697 949 824-0084(o), 949 285-4487(c) --- Good judgment comes from experience; Experience comes from bad judgment. [F. Brooks.] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
