Re: Is it possible to change sunit of log section post-mkfs

[Michael Weissenbacher <mw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Brian!

On 2015-11-03 14:02, Brian Foster wrote:
> I don't believe there's any supported way to do this.
Well, at least i didn't miss anything in the documentation :-)

On 2015-11-03 14:02, Brian Foster wrote:
> Out of curiosity,
> I just tried an experiment to modify the superblock logsunit via xfs_db
> and run repair to zero the log. That seemed to work in terms of taking
> effect on the subsequent mount, but that's certainly not something I
> would suggest to do in production.
Ok, so it would definitely be too risky for a production system.

On 2015-11-03 14:02, Brian Foster wrote:
> Note that mkfs aligns the physical
> log based on the stripe unit as well, so it wouldn't really have the
> same effect anyways.
TBH, i didn't quite understand that part :-)
Are you saying, even if i would modify the log's sunit size using
xfs_db, it would still not be aligned correctly?

thanks,
Michael