From: Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@intellique.com>
To: Mukul Malhotra <smilemukul2005@gmail.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: How to determine the reserved blocks in xfs filesystem ?
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 17:08:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150824170808.4129dcec@harpe.intellique.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJtCNH1EyP6d+rGeJRzaAx7Mh+s89hEudDbfbwofYK_tJD6x4A@mail.gmail.com>
Le Mon, 24 Aug 2015 10:14:52 +0530
Mukul Malhotra <smilemukul2005@gmail.com> écrivait:
> Hi,
>
> I have below queries on XFS log device as,
>
> 1. After creating a XFS filesystem with an external log device
> (journal), is there a way to mount the filesystem if I lose the
> external log device or a way to recover files?
You can use some other device to hold the log. You could use a ramdisk,
a loop device pointing to some file, etc. No problem as long as you
unmounted the filesystem properly.
> 2. Is there a way to convert an existing XFS filesystem which has
> internal log to external log and vice versa.
>
Apparently no. xfs_growfs should be able to do it, but the man page
states that this function is not implemented.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-24 15:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-18 12:35 How to determine the reserved blocks in xfs filesystem ? Mukul Malhotra
2014-11-18 13:32 ` Brian Foster
2014-11-18 22:35 ` Dave Chinner
2014-11-19 0:19 ` Brian Foster
2014-11-21 16:36 ` Mukul Malhotra
2015-08-24 4:44 ` Mukul Malhotra
2015-08-24 15:08 ` Emmanuel Florac [this message]
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