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* convert External Log to Internal Log
@ 2011-04-28 23:45 Ling Ho
  2011-04-29  0:32 ` Dave Chinner
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Ling Ho @ 2011-04-28 23:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xfs

Is there any way to convert from external log to internal log on RHEL 5.6?

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.

Thanks,
...
ling

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* Re: convert External Log to Internal Log
  2011-04-28 23:45 convert External Log to Internal Log Ling Ho
@ 2011-04-29  0:32 ` Dave Chinner
  2011-04-29  1:54   ` Ling C. Ho
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Dave Chinner @ 2011-04-29  0:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ling Ho; +Cc: xfs

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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* Re: convert External Log to Internal Log
  2011-04-29  0:32 ` Dave Chinner
@ 2011-04-29  1:54   ` Ling C. Ho
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Ling C. Ho @ 2011-04-29  1:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Dave Chinner; +Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com

Ok. I will go the safe route, recreate the file system, and restore the 
data.

Thanks,
...
ling

On 4/28/11 5:32 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> 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.

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