Re: short xfs_db intro ?

["William L. Jones" <jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In general I don't think even the most sophisticated  sys admin will
ever have to use this command unless they were trying debug the xfs file
system.  xfs_db can be usefully but to a very small number of people.

I like to see some work done on xfs_reapair.   Just having an example
that talks about how it handles lost+found would be usefully.  It very
confusing the first time you see it relink file the were original in 
lost+found.
I thought it was a bug the first time I saw what it did.

Bill Jones



At 03:16 PM 8/17/00 -0500, Steve Lord wrote:

> 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
> >
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