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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