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From: "Ling C. Ho" <ling@slac.stanford.edu>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: "xfs@oss.sgi.com" <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: convert External Log to Internal Log
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:54:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DBA1A60.7050400@slac.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110429003231.GS12436@dastard>

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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      reply	other threads:[~2011-04-29  1:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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 [this message]

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