<div dir="ltr">Hi Dave,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for the clarification and inputs. Your support is much appreciated.</div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><br>
<div>Murali</div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 5:41 PM, Dave Chinner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@fromorbit.com" target="_blank">david@fromorbit.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 01:27:12PM -0400, murali krishna wrote:<br>
> Hi Darrick,<br>
><br>
> Thanks for the response.<br>
><br>
> Could you please clarify if there is any strong reason behind in stating to<br>
> use xfs_metadump and xfs_mdrestore as just debugging tools in their<br>
> respective man pages ?<br>
<br>
</span>The man page is simply stating the truth - metadump/restore are<br>
debugging tools used by XFS developers for obtaining information<br>
required for forensic analysis of filesystem failures.<br>
<br>
What you are wanting to do will not work, is not supported, and you<br>
get to keep all the broken bits to yourself if you try it.<br>
Every XFS developer you ask will say the same thing:<br>
xfsdump/encrypt/mkfs/xfs_<wbr>restore is the only way to do what you want<br>
to do.<br>
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-Dave.<br>
--<br>
Dave Chinner<br>
<a href="mailto:david@fromorbit.com">david@fromorbit.com</a><br>
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