From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:43:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m3TGhA7s027069 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:43:18 -0700 Message-ID: <48175046.5050405@sandeen.net> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:43:50 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Problems with xfs_grow on large LVM + XFS filesystem 20TB size check 2 failed References: <6A32BC807C106440B7E23208F280DDAF01D21F36FD@bcmail1.VIDMARK.LOCAL> <481650F5.40205@sandeen.net> <6A32BC807C106440B7E23208F280DDAF01D21F3718@bcmail1.VIDMARK.LOCAL> <481656F6.5030300@sandeen.net> <48166E18.10008@sgi.com> <48166F42.50104@sandeen.net> <6A32BC807C106440B7E23208F280DDAF01D21F384B@bcmail1.VIDMARK.LOCAL> In-Reply-To: <6A32BC807C106440B7E23208F280DDAF01D21F384B@bcmail1.VIDMARK.LOCAL> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Lance Reed Cc: "markgw@sgi.com" , "xfs@oss.sgi.com" 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