X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0-r929098 (2010-03-30) on oss.sgi.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.4.0-r929098 Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id p3T1pLwu033970 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:51:21 -0500 X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1304042094-285e00490000-NocioJ X-Barracuda-URL: http://cuda.sgi.com:80/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from nospam1.slac.stanford.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 374411A3DC13 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:54:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nospam1.slac.stanford.edu (nospam1.slac.stanford.edu [134.79.18.81]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id MzYmNOGpToSGEJ6B for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:54:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from exch-hub2.win.slac.stanford.edu (exch-hub2.slac.stanford.edu [134.79.164.112]) by nospam1.slac.stanford.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p3T1scBQ031058 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL); Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:54:39 -0700 (envelope-from ling@slac.stanford.edu) Received: from EXCH-CLIENT1.win.slac.stanford.edu (2002:864f:6ad0::864f:6ad0) by exch-hub2.win.slac.stanford.edu (2002:864f:a470::864f:a470) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.3.137.0; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:54:38 -0700 Received: from ppa-pc83676-mac.slac.stanford.edu (134.79.72.19) by email.slac.stanford.edu (134.79.106.208) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.3.137.0; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:54:38 -0700 Message-ID: <4DBA1A60.7050400@slac.stanford.edu> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:54:40 -0700 From: "Ling C. Ho" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Chinner CC: "xfs@oss.sgi.com" X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Re: convert External Log to Internal Log Subject: Re: convert External Log to Internal Log References: <4DB9FC37.8080904@slac.stanford.edu> <20110429003231.GS12436@dastard> In-Reply-To: <20110429003231.GS12436@dastard> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Barracuda-Connect: nospam1.slac.stanford.edu[134.79.18.81] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1304042095 X-Barracuda-Bayes: INNOCENT GLOBAL 0.0279 1.0000 -1.8404 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by cuda.sgi.com at sgi.com X-Barracuda-Spam-Score: -1.84 X-Barracuda-Spam-Status: No, SCORE=-1.84 using per-user scores of TAG_LEVEL=2.0 QUARANTINE_LEVEL=1000.0 KILL_LEVEL=2.1 tests= X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.2, rules version 3.2.2.62227 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.94.2, clamav-milter version 0.94.2 on oss.sgi.com X-Virus-Status: Clean 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.