Steve Lord <lord <at> xfs.org> writes: > > OK - After looking at the strace I checked the _other_ superblocks. > > As I only altered SB0, the other superblocks SB1+ still contains the > > old logstart value. > > > > Wrote "logfile 0" to SB 0 - SB 15, and it all works! :) > > > > It this the way to do it, or am I missing something obvious? > > > > That is the way to do it, the tools are more picky than they used > to be about this. Which is why getting the facility built into > the tools would help a lot - since it would do the fixup of all > superblocks itself. > > Steve This is a pretty old thread but I have not found anything newer, so maybe somebody is still watching. I went through internal->external log procedure as described here and linked-to articles a few years ago and it worked fine. These days I got into similar problem after reconfiguring a disk which holds the external log for a XFS partition. The question to the gurus is following: Is it possible to migrate an external log to internal if the XFS filesystem was originally created without an internal log, i.e. it was put on external device straight at mkfs.xfs invocation? xfs_growfs still says, after 7 years, at least in the man page, that -l/-i/-x options are not implemented. Is it really so? regards, Michal. PS. Just to comment on multiple SBs issue. The need for manually rewrite ALL superblocks' data was mentioned in the first comment (by Eric Sandeen) to the excellent HOWTO written by Steve Lord in http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2003-11/msg00683.html The thread is titled: It just begs the question everywhere: how to move a journaling log to a new device? _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
