Re: convert External Log to Internal Log

["Ling C. Ho" <ling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ok. I will go the safe route, recreate the file system, and restore the 
data.
Thanks,
...
ling

On 4/28/11 5:32 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 04:45:59PM -0700, Ling Ho wrote:
> > Is there any way to convert from external log to internal log on RHEL 5.6?
> Try dump-mkfs-restore - there's no simple way of converting an
> existing filesystem.  At least, not without highly dangerous offline
> manual xfs_db surgery that could corrupt the fs....
>
> > I tried running xfs_growfs -i but it complains saying
> >
> > xfs_growfs: failed to access external log for /dev/sdc
> >
> > and the man page says -i is not implemented. I am using xfsprogs
> > version 3.1.5.
> Yup, not implemented and as such not supported.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.