Re: XFS with md device on RAID5

[Martin Spott <mas@plesnik.de>]

On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 09:59:35PM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 09:36:04PM +0100, Martin Spott wrote:
> 
> > # man mkfs.xfs
> > [...]
> >   mkfs.xfs -l logdev=/dev/<your logdisk>,size=<desired logsize> /dev/<datadisk>
> 
> Is it possible to transfer the log to another device without making the fs
> new? My / is on a XFS-Raid5 and transferring log with making new fs would
> make it quite time consuming... ;)

Even if it would work I might not trust such a procedure. I believe a proper
backup is your friend - especially with mor than 2 TB of space ....
Hmmm, It appeared to me that you were building a new filesystem !?

Martin.
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