From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Lance Reed <lreed@brightcove.com>
Cc: "markgw@sgi.com" <markgw@sgi.com>, "xfs@oss.sgi.com" <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Problems with xfs_grow on large LVM + XFS filesystem 20TB size check 2 failed
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:43:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48175046.5050405@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6A32BC807C106440B7E23208F280DDAF01D21F384B@bcmail1.VIDMARK.LOCAL>
Lance Reed wrote:
> Thanks so much for all the info!
>
> I am currently looking over the
> http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2008-01/msg00097.html
> post to figure out if I need to do antyhing manual to finish expanding the filesystem.
>
> If it is possible to expand in increments less than 2 TB, is there a way to do this via xfs_growfs? I am a bit confused by the -D and -R options and which one would be relevant here. Or do I have to shrink the LVM Logical Volume first and then just run "xfs_grow /mntpoint".
> Also, can I run with the "-n" option to confirm if the xfs_growfs command "should" complete correctly each time? (looking for docs on this...)
>
> Is there any reason I couldn't grab a newerer release of the XFS tools, etc, and compile for CentOs 5.0 and use them in this case?
Well, it's there's a kernel bug when growing by >2T so it's not just a
tools issue...
>From what Mark said it sounds like growing 2T at a time is fine.
you can specify sizes on the xfs_growfs commandline, as specified in the
man page.
-Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-29 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-28 21:42 Problems with xfs_grow on large LVM + XFS filesystem 20TB size check 2 failed Lance Reed
2008-04-28 22:34 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-04-28 22:40 ` Lance Reed
2008-04-28 23:00 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-04-29 0:38 ` Mark Goodwin
2008-04-29 0:43 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-04-29 16:15 ` Lance Reed
2008-04-29 16:43 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2008-04-29 16:52 ` Lance Reed
2008-04-29 16:55 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-04-30 21:53 ` Lance Reed
2008-04-30 23:24 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-04-30 11:31 ` CentOS project? <- (Re: Problems with xfs_grow on large LVM + XFS filesystem 20TB size check 2 failed) Tru Huynh
2008-04-30 14:54 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-04-29 1:59 ` Problems with xfs_grow on large LVM + XFS filesystem 20TB size check 2 failed David Chinner
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