On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 20:32, James Rich wrote:
>
> > what should I do?
>
> Please try a newer xfsprogs version, for starters - 2.0.3 is pretty old
> by now. 2.3.9 is on the ftp site now, or grab a slightly older version
> from the 1.2 release.
I did so and found that a problem exists when I specify the size as in:
size=10000b. If I leave the size off it works. Here is the failing
command:
mkfs.xfs -f -l logdev=/dev/sdb6,size=10000b /dev/sda2
If I just leave the size parameter off it works. But how much of the
/dev/sdb6 partition is used? /proc/partitions shows this for sdb6:
8 22 16033 sdb6
Is the partition big enough (I made it really small thinking that the log
is small)? /proc/partitions for /dev/sda2 looks like:
8 2 208845 sda2
Does the log size depend on the partition being logged (i.e. if sda2 was
10 times bigger would the log need to be ten times bigger)? I know I
could just use an internal log, but I have two disks and the itch to
experiment :)
Futher, by default mkfs.xfs creates logs with version 1. Shouldn't it
default to version 2?
Now using mkfs.xfs version 2.3.9
James Rich
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