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Re: problem creating log

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Subject: Re: problem creating log
From: James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:38:31 -0700 (MST)
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On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Eric Sandeen wrote:

> Let's go with Nathan's hunch - what version of the kernel are you using?

2.4.20 - though my cvs isn't as up to date as I thought it was.  Was
BLKGETSIZE64 broken anytime during 2.4.20?

> the BLKGETSIZE64 iocttl was broken for a while, and returned bad values.
> That could be causing your problem...
>
> THe default internal log grows with the size of the fs, to a point.   But
> aside from some overall min/max log sizes (probably documented in the
> mkfs.xfs man page) you can have a wide range of log sizes for a given fs.

I'm just wondering if my log partitions are big enough and if the size
parameter is not specified does the log occupy the entire partition?

> > 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

James Rich


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