setup_harddisks and xfs filesystem

[Holger Mense]

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Hi,

I am just in the process of setting up an fai server. As a filesystem for 
my clients I want to use SGIs XFS. 

I am using this disk config:

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disk_config hda
primary /boot           100                             ;xfs
primary -               10000
logical /               1000                            ;xfs
logical swap            1024                            ;xfs
logical /var            2000                            ;xfs
logical /tmp            1000                            ;xfs
logical /usr            10000                           ;xfs
logical /opt            10000                           ;xfs
logical /cdtemp         2500                            ;xfs
logical /.hostpart      0-				;xfs
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I have no problems to install my client, however after rebooting,  the 
filesystem on partiton hda5 (containing /) is always destroyed.

It is even getting worse. After the installation finished, I start a shell 
with ctrl-c. Then I unmount all partitions of the fresh installed client 
(there is data on all partitons. 
I have no problems to mount them again, only hda5 is destroyed.

Running xfs_repair I noticed, that the first superblock of this partition 
seems to be destroyed. Okay, I could now run xfs_repair on every install, 
however this is not the preferred solution for me ;)
    
I am using fai 2.5.3 and kernel 2.4.24 with xfs-support (build on my own),
and tried this one time with xfsprogs from woody (2.0.x) and the other
time with xfsprogs from backports.org (2.6.0). The error occures with both
versions.

I looked around in setup_harddisks, but could not find any clue, what is 
going wrong there.

Has someone else seen this problem, or is someone else here, who has no 
problems with xfs and fai?


MfG Holger Mense

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Holger Mense
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