On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 11:45:38AM +0000, Michal Szymanski wrote: > 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? Not easily. The log region needs to be contiguous, and removed from the free space btrees, which means it is a tricky operation to do. It's possible that all you need to do is find enough contiguous free space somewhere and point the superblock at that (with xfs_db), then run repair to fix up the free space trees. I would not try this on a filesystem that holds data you care about, though, until you know whether it works... > 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? Very few people ever ask about doing this or need it and it's quite complex to implement and test, so it's never been done. It will probably stay unimplemented until someone who really needs it helps implement it. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
