If we specify "-f" to xfs_repair, it recognizes that it's working on a file, and if the underlying filesystem sector size differs such that direct IO won't work, it disables direct IO. It's odd, though, that we'd need to specify this, and the failure is non-obvious: # xfs_repair /mnt/test/foo.img Phase 1 - find and verify superblock... xfs_repair: read failed: Invalid argument I see no advantage to requiring the administrator to jump through this hoop; why not just detect that it's a file, and move on? Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> --- V2: don't check statbuf if stat fails, thanks Brian :) diff --git a/repair/xfs_repair.c b/repair/xfs_repair.c index 834697a..2d376be 100644 --- a/repair/xfs_repair.c +++ b/repair/xfs_repair.c @@ -573,6 +573,18 @@ main(int argc, char **argv) exit(1); } + /* -f forces this, but let's be nice and autodetect it, as well. */ + if (!isa_file) { + int fd = libxfs_device_to_fd(x.ddev); + struct stat64 statbuf; + + if (fstat64(fd, &statbuf) < 0) + do_warn(_("%s: couldn't stat \"%s\"\n"), + progname, fs_name); + else if (S_ISREG(statbuf.st_mode)) + isa_file = 1; + } + /* * if the sector size of the filesystem we are trying to repair is * smaller than that of the underlying filesystem (i.e. we are repairing _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs