Jerone Young wrote :
A file systems structures do not change accross architetures. So a
PPC
or X86_64 enviroment reads it the same way an i386 enviroment (if they
programmed it right,and as far as I know xfs is). Now bootable
partions accross different aritectures is another story :-)
I have no problems accessing from an x86 the ext3 partitions made from the
x86_64 host that are on the same physical disk as that problematic xfs one.
It's not the first time I try, with this exact same disk... last time I
gave up trying to read it from an x86 host, and when I tried looking into
the problem my x86_64 machine was having... gone, it was booting again, so
I just put the disk back in, and it worked fine.
Now, that x86_64 doesn't boot anymore (same problem), and I tried (again)
to access the disk's data from an x86 test machine, and I can mount the
ext3 partitions fine, I can even get the disk's grub to appear and the
kernels tell me that I need a 64bit system for them to work ;-) But trying
to mount that xfs partition (made on the x86_64 host running FC2) gives me
a segfault every time, which is why I was asking : I'm 100% sure my x86_64
FC2 host could still read that partition if it still booted, whereas no x86
FC2 or FCDev can, as I see it...
I've tried searching for info regarding possible incompatibilities for
filesystems between archs, but can't seem to find anything relevant to my
problem.
If your signature is correct your running FC3 test 2 (and upgraded
the
hell out of it), do a clean install and try RC2.
That's my laptop, a completely different matter :-)
Matthias
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