Building arla-0.4 on RedHat Linux 5.0/glibc 2.06

[Magnus Ahltorp]

> xfs is not working, however. There are no inodes under /afs when arla is
> mounted (not even . or ..). Using "-r clear" didn't help. Neither did
> mounting arla before running arlad--in fact when I did that, /afs became a
> file with permissions "?---------", according to ls. 

the permissions ?--------- indicate a dead inode, which means that xfs
cannot contact arla to get the root xfs_node. When you do 'mount', xfs
must be able to speak to arla, or that root inode will appear.

If you switch on debugging in xfs (change the x to X in
xfs/linux/xdeb.c), you will see what it is trying to do.

> I also tried experimenting with the fs command, but didn't seem to get any
> useful output.

Many of the fs commands aren't implemented in xfs and arla, so you won't
have much luck with it.

Magnus