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Re: short xfs_db intro ?

To: Thomas Graichen <graichen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, thomas.graichen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: short xfs_db intro ?
From: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 15:16:42 -0500
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: Message from Thomas Graichen <news-innominate.list.sgi.xfs@innominate.de> of "17 Aug 2000 12:42:35 GMT." <news2mail-8ngmjr$ikg$6@mate.bln.innominate.de>
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The first trick is finding people familiar with xfs_db! I personally
only use it as a tool of last resort. The only documentation I am aware
of for xfs_db is the man page, it does contain information on the different
metadata objects in XFS.

Steve



> just a little idea: can anyone of the people very familiar with
> xfs_db please do a simple xfs_db sesssion and record it with
> script(1) - maybe showing most of the typical things (super-
> block i think - other interesting blocks and inodes etc.)
> 
> i think this will not take much time for someone using xfS_db
> everyday and knowing the xfs struktures on disk very well and
> this might be a good intro for a newbie ...
> 
> if someone would do this and put some simple comments to the
> steps i may polish it a bit and put it somewhere - i think
> it might be of use now that xfs gets more widely used
> 
> a lot of thanks in advance
> 
> t
> 
> p.s.: a detailed xfs_db doc would be fine also if that should
>       exist
> 
> -- 
> thomas.graichen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> technical director                                       innominate AG
> clustering & security                                networking people
> tel: +49.30.308806-13  fax: -77                   http://innominate.de



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