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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Joe Landman <joe.landman@gmail.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: converting from external log to internal log ... is this possible?
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 13:41:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <540DF86D.8080705@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <540DF0FD.205@gmail.com>

On 9/8/14 1:10 PM, Joe Landman wrote:
> Figured I'd ask, looked on the FAQ and didn't see anything there
> relevant to this.  There is a hint of this in xfs_growfs,
> specifically the -i option, though it is noted that "[NOTE: This
> option is not implemented]".

Yep, it's never been implemented.  You could do it manually with
some very careful xfs_db surgery, if you had enough contiguous
freespace available, but it's not at all supported.

Basically, no, you can't do it without getting very far under
the hood and directly editing the disk.

-Eric

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-08 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-08 18:10 converting from external log to internal log ... is this possible? Joe Landman
2014-09-08 18:41 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2014-09-08 22:07   ` Dave Chinner

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