From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id p3T1pLwu033970 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:51:21 -0500 Received: from nospam1.slac.stanford.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 374411A3DC13 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:54:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nospam1.slac.stanford.edu (nospam1.slac.stanford.edu [134.79.18.81]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id MzYmNOGpToSGEJ6B for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:54:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DBA1A60.7050400@slac.stanford.edu> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:54:40 -0700 From: "Ling C. Ho" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: convert External Log to Internal Log References: <4DB9FC37.8080904@slac.stanford.edu> <20110429003231.GS12436@dastard> In-Reply-To: <20110429003231.GS12436@dastard> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com 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. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs