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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Ling Ho <ling@slac.stanford.edu>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: convert External Log to Internal Log
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:32:31 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110429003231.GS12436@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DB9FC37.8080904@slac.stanford.edu>

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 04:45:59PM -0700, Ling Ho wrote:
> Is there any way to convert from external log to internal log on RHEL 5.6?

Try dump-mkfs-restore - there's no simple way of converting an
existing filesystem.  At least, not without highly dangerous offline
manual xfs_db surgery that could corrupt the fs....

> I tried running xfs_growfs -i but it complains saying
> 
> xfs_growfs: failed to access external log for /dev/sdc
> 
> and the man page says -i is not implemented. I am using xfsprogs
> version 3.1.5.

Yup, not implemented and as such not supported.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-29  0:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-28 23:45 convert External Log to Internal Log Ling Ho
2011-04-29  0:32 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2011-04-29  1:54   ` Ling C. Ho

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