Last night I switched my laptop over to XFS, and now when I boot 
I get this message flashing by.  Does the first line mean anything 
to anyone?  XFS'ers, is that, ahem, normal?  Kernel 2.4.12 with SGI's 
XFS patch applied.

FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
XFS mounting filesystem ide0(3,6)
VFS: Mounted root (xfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 192k freed

All the partitions are Linux (or Linux swap).
Everything seems to work alright, although I'm currently considering 
whether it was worth putting a journalling filesystem on a P150.

Secondly, anyone care to offer an insight into how this works.
>From the Linux+XFS HOWTO, it suggest using the following to copy 
your root filesystem across to another partition.

cd /
tar lcf - .|(cd /mnt/temp; tar xpvf - )

I vaguely understand how it works, but a quick blow-by-blow explanation 
from someone more knowledgable would be lovely.  man tar didn't explain 
what the - was doing.


ta
Steve
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