On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:17:08AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > > Does it? Given that the loop driver uses buffered I/O that would be > > unexpected behaviour. I'll try to reproduce it as soon as my 4k > > disk is available again. > > My 3TB, RAID6 based image storage filesystem has a 4k sector size, > and I can't run xfs_repair on an image file that has smaller sector > sizes than 4k without this mod. In that case, xfs_repair is doing > direct IO on a file, not a device, and the file is on the 4k sector > sized filesytem. I've been carrying this patch for a while. Got it - you repair the image on directly on the device, without the loop driver. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
