converting from external log to internal log ... is this possible?

Eric Sandeen sandeen at sandeen.net
Mon Sep 8 13:41:49 CDT 2014


On 9/8/14 1:10 PM, Joe Landman wrote:
> Figured I'd ask, looked on the FAQ and didn't see anything there
> relevant to this.  There is a hint of this in xfs_growfs,
> specifically the -i option, though it is noted that "[NOTE: This
> option is not implemented]".

Yep, it's never been implemented.  You could do it manually with
some very careful xfs_db surgery, if you had enough contiguous
freespace available, but it's not at all supported.

Basically, no, you can't do it without getting very far under
the hood and directly editing the disk.

-Eric



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