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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@is.it-management.at>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] xfsprogs: add xfs_reno(8)
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 08:48:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A1FE7A2.9030302@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200905290837.11098@zmi.at>

Michael Monnerie wrote:
> On Donnerstag 28 Mai 2009 Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> The Linux port of xfs_reno
> 
> When used, does it move inodes on disk, or just change the numbers?

Both.  location == number == location == number ...

> Because there seems to be still danger on inode64, would it be worth to 
> sometimes run xfs_reno to get most files back to inode32, but still 
> mount with inode64? I know this would create big inodes again, but at 
> least old data would be safe.

that sounds like going in circles....  I wouldn't recommend it.

Either you want 64-bit inodes.... or not.

-Eric

> mfg zmi

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-29 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-28 15:18 [PATCH, RFC] xfsprogs: add xfs_reno(8) Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-29  6:37 ` Michael Monnerie
2009-05-29 13:48   ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2009-07-16 18:08 ` Eric Sandeen

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