----- Original Message ----- > ... > It's trying to read/write 512 bytes at the beginning of the file which seems > reasonably innocuous. I double checked the man page which says that under > 2.6, O_DIRECT writes can be aligned to 512 bytes without a problem. sbp > comes > out with 4096 in blocksize and 512 in sectsize when zero_old_xfs_structures() > is called and the first error comes up, so I'm at a loss for what's going > wrong. The filesystem backing the new /root/image file doesn't support direct I/O? cheers. -- Nathan _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs