Clarification required about xfs_metadump and xfs_mdrestore

[murali krishna]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the clarification and inputs. Your support is much appreciated.

Murali

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 5:41 PM, Dave Chinner <david at fromorbit.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 01:27:12PM -0400, murali krishna wrote:
> > Hi Darrick,
> >
> > Thanks for the response.
> >
> > Could you please clarify if there is any strong reason behind in stating
> to
> > use xfs_metadump and xfs_mdrestore as just debugging tools in their
> > respective man pages ?
>
> The man page is simply stating the truth - metadump/restore are
> debugging tools used by XFS developers for obtaining information
> required for forensic analysis of filesystem failures.
>
> What you are wanting to do will not work, is not supported, and you
> get to keep all the broken bits to yourself if you try it.
> Every XFS developer you ask will say the same thing:
> xfsdump/encrypt/mkfs/xfs_restore is the only way to do what you want
> to do.
>
> -Dave.
> --
> Dave Chinner
> david at fromorbit.com
>
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