Bug#414932: linux-image-2.6.18-4-ixp4xx: xfs partition from x86 system can not be used on arm

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>]

Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> Eric,
> 
> We at Debian received a bug report about XFS on ARM (see below).  I
> noticed your posting at
> http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2007-03/msg00053.html in which you
> said that this was a known issue.  I cannot find the workaround you
> mentioned in your message.  Do you know where I can find it?
> 
> I think you also mentioned not having access to any ARM hardware.
> If I can give you an account on an ARM machine, do you think you could
> invetigate this issue in more detail?  It would be great to have a
> small testcase that could be sent to the GCC folks.

I think this was the fix:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg18479.html

yeah, somebody should get to the bottom of this... sure, if I can log
into an arm machine that demonstrates the bug, I could try to come up
with a compact gcc testcase.  Well, from looking at this patch I suppose
anyone could, but I'll try to find some time.  :)

Thanks,

-Eric